1943 in Northern Ireland
| |||||
| Centuries: |
| ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decades: |
| ||||
| See also: | |||||
Events during the year 1943 in Northern Ireland.
Events
- 9 February - The Belfast West by-election is won by the Northern Ireland Labour Party candidate Jack Beattie
- 1 May - Sir Basil Brooke becomes Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
- 17 June - British aircraft carrier HMS Campania (D48) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
- 29 July - Cruiser HMCS Ontario (C53) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast to British Admiralty order.
- 27 November - British aircraft carrier HMS Glory (R62) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast by Lady Brooke.
Arts and literature
- Release of the Crown Film Unit drama documentary short A Letter From Ulster directed by Brian Desmond Hurst assisted by William MacQuitty.[1]
- Roy McFadden's poetry Swords and Ploughshares is published.
- John Luke paints Pax.
Births
- 18 February - George Campbell, politician in Australia.
- 27 February - Jimmy Nicholson, footballer.
- 10 March - Eamonn McCann, journalist and political activist.
- 8 April - Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, politician (died 2006).
- 16 April - Tom Lewis, singer-songwriter.
- 14 May - John Cushnie, gardener and broadcaster (died 2009).
- 22 May - Betty Williams, peace campaigner, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 2020).
- 18 June - Willie Irvine, footballer.
- 15 July - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist.
- 21 July - Henry McCullough, guitarist.
- 15 August - Eileen Bell, Alliance Party MLA.
- 31 October - Stephen Rea, actor.
Full date unknown
- Billy Brown, musician and artist (died 1999).
- George Jones, radio and television broadcaster.
- Kenneth Montgomery, conductor.
Deaths
- 19 July - Robert Alexander, rugby and cricket player (born 1910).
gollark: I think in some cases "red hot" might also be hot enough that it melts.
gollark: What?
gollark: Why? Heating armour and weapons and stuff?
gollark: Or use some other magic thing to "see" inside them, if that counts.
gollark: Well, you can still heat up their outside bit. Or argue that you can see some parts of their body which shouldn't be filled with water. Or command their skeleton if they have an exposed broken bone somehow.
See also
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.