1952 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Governor - Earl Granville, The Lord Wakehurst
• Prime Minister - Basil Brooke

Events

• August - Official opening of Binnian Tunnel, feeding water to the Silent Valley Reservoir under the Mourne Mountains.
• 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.

Arts and literature

• Daniel O'Neill paints Birth.

Sport

Football

• Irish League
• '''Irish Cup'''

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.
• 1 March – Martin O'Neill, international footballer and football manager.
• 2 March – Lenny Murphy, loyalist paramilitary and leader of the Shankill Butchers.
• 4 April – Gary Moore, guitarist.
• 22 April – Gerald Dawe, writer and poet.
• 7 June – Liam Neeson, actor.
• 25 June – Alan Green, sports broadcaster.
• 17 October – Graham Forsythe, artist.
• 20 December – Terry George, screenwriter and film director.

Full date unknown

• John Linehan, drag performer.
• Tommy McKearney, hunger striker, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, later journalist.
• William Peskett, poet.