1952 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1952 in Northern Ireland.

← 1951 1950 1949 1952 in Northern Ireland → 1953 1954 1955
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	1952 in the United Kingdom 1952 in Ireland Other events of 1952 List of years in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Governor - Earl Granville (until 1 December), The Lord Wakehurst (from 1 December)
• Prime Minister - Basil Brooke

Events

• August - Official opening of Binnian Tunnel (2.5 miles (4.0 km)), feeding water to the Silent Valley Reservoir under the Mourne Mountains.^[1]
• 12 November – Murder of Patricia Curran, 19-year-old daughter of Sir Lancelot Curran. Iain Hay Gordon was found guilty of her murder, but the sentence was overturned in 2000.^[2]

Arts and literature

• Daniel O'Neill paints Birth.^[3]

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Glenavon

• Irish Cup

Winners: Ards 1 - 0 Glentoran

Births

• 8 January – Alex Maskey, first Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor and MLA.
• 18 January – Derek Spence, footballer.
• 25 February – Joey Dunlop, motorcycle racer (died 2000).
• 1 March – Martin O'Neill, international footballer and football manager.
• 2 March – Lenny Murphy, loyalist paramilitary and leader of the Shankill Butchers (died 1982).
• 4 April – Gary Moore, guitarist.
• 7 June – Liam Neeson, actor.
• 25 June – Alan Green, sports broadcaster.
• 17 October – Graham Forsythe, artist.
• 20 December – Terry George, screenwriter and director.

Full date unknown

• Gerald Dawe, writer and poet.
• John Linehan, comedian (May McFettridge).
• Tommy McKearney, former hunger striker and member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, now a journalist.
• William Peskett, poet.

Deaths

• Louisa Watson Peat, writer and lecturer (born 1883)

See also

• 1952 in Scotland
• 1952 in Wales