1950 in Northern Ireland

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Events during the year 1950 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

12 March – Llandow air disaster: 83 people die when a plane carrying Welsh rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in South Wales.^[1]
12 May – Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.
3 July – Ulster Transport Authority closes the Ballycastle Railway^[2] and the Ballymena and Larne Railway.^[3]

September - Poet Philip Larkin takes up a 5-year post as sub-librarian at Queen's University Belfast.

This was the only year where Ireland didn't participate at the Commonwealth Games. (British Empire Games)

Winners: Linfield

Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Distillery

22 January – Paul Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University of Belfast.
16 February – Peter Hain. 16th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
12 April – Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop in The Diocese of Down and Connor.
23 May – Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin MP, MLA and Deputy First Minister (died 2017).
23 June – Martin O'Hagan, journalist (died 2001).
9 July – Alban Maginness, SDLP MLA.
12 August – Medbh McGuckian, poet.
28 September – Brian Keenan, writer and hostage in Lebanon.
Denis Donaldson, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, member of Sinn Féin, exposed in 2005 as an informer (died 2006).

^ The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. 2008. p. 816. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
^ "Ballycastle Railway Station". Ballycastle. Retrieved 27 October 2007.
^ Ferris, T. (1993). The Irish Narrow Gauge. Volume 2, The Ulster Lines. Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-017-6.

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