1975 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Secretary of State - Merlyn Rees

Events

• 10 February – A Provisional IRA ceasefire begins; this ceasefire officially lasts until 23 January 1976.
• 20 February – A violent feud erupts between the Official Irish Republican Army and the Irish Republican Socialist Party and Irish National Liberation Army.
• 1 May – Elections take place for the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention.
• 5 June – United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum takes place across the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland votes to remain in the European Communities with a slight majority.
• 17 July – The South Armagh Brigade of the PIRA killed four soldiers at Forkhill, County Armagh with a remote-controlled improvised explosive.
• 31 July – Miami Showband killings: Three members of The Miami Showband, together with two paramilitaries, are killed in an Ulster Volunteer Force ambush in County Down as they return home to Dublin from playing at a dance in Banbridge.
• 13 August – Bayardo Bar Attack: The PIRA carried out a gun and bomb attack on the Bayardo Bar on the Shankill Road in Belfast, a bar frequented by UVF commanders. Four Protestant civilians and one UVF member were killed.
• 22 November – Drummuckavall ambush: The PIRA attacked a British Army observation post at Drummuckavall near Crossmaglen, County Armagh, killing three soldiers.
• 31 December – Central Bar bombing: The INLA carried out a bomb attack on a bar in Gilford, County Down, killing three protestant civilians.

Arts and literature

• 14 May – Patrick Galvin's We Do It For Love, a satire on The Troubles, opens at the Lyric Theatre.
• October – Stewart Parker's Spokesong opens at the Lyric ; his play I’m a Dreamer, Montreal is also written this year.
• The punk rock/new wave band which will become The Undertones is formed in Derry.
• William Peskett's poems The Nightowl's Dissection are published.

Sport

Football

• Irish League '– Winners: Linfield
• Irish Cup – Winners:' Coleraine 1 – 1, 0 – 0, 1 – 0 Linfield
• 16 August – Ballinamallard United F.C. established

Births

• 18 February – Keith Gillespie, international soccer player.
• 9 June – Brian Magee, boxer.
• 21 July – Cara Dillon, folk singer
• 24 July – Gordon Cooke, cricketer.
• 27 August – Kyle McCallan, cricketer.
• 4 September – Andrew Patterson, cricketer.
• 13 October – Oisín McConville, Armagh Gaelic footballer.
• 4 November – Warren Christie, actor.

Full date unknown

• Nick Laird, novelist and poet.

Deaths

• 23 February – Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister.
• 28 April – Billy McMillen, OIRA officer, killed in feud with the INLA.
• 25 November – Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury.