1950 in Northern Ireland
Events during the year 1950 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
- 12 March – Llandow air disaster: 83 people die when a plane carrying Welsh rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in South Wales.
- 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 and the Ballymena and Larne Railway.
Arts and literature
- September - Poet Philip Larkin takes up a 5-year post as sub-librarian at Queen's University Belfast.
Sport
This was the only year where Ireland didn't participate at the Commonwealth Games.Football
- Irish League
- '''Irish Cup'''
Golf
Births
- 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 Roman Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor.
- 23 May – Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin MP, MLA and Deputy First Minister.
- 23 June – Martin O'Hagan, journalist.
- 9 July – Alban Maginness, SDLP MLA.
- 12 August – Medbh McGuckian, poet.
- 28 September – Brian Keenan, writer and hostage in Lebanon.
- 16 December – Dolours Price, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and political activist.
- Denis Donaldson, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, member of Sinn Féin, exposed in 2005 as an informer.
Deaths
- 20 July – Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician.
- James Sleator, painter.