1975 in Northern Ireland

Centuries:	20th; 21st;
Decades:	1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s;
See also:	1975 in the United Kingdom; 1975 in Ireland; Other events of 1975; List of years in Northern Ireland;

Events during the year 1975 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

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.

14 May – Patrick Galvin's We Do It For Love, a satire on The Troubles, opens at the Lyric Theatre (Belfast).
October – Stewart Parker's Spokesong opens at the Lyric (Belfast); 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.

Winners: Linfield

Winners: Coleraine 1 – 1, 0 – 0, 1 – 0 Linfield

23 February – Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (born 1889).
28 April – Billy McMillen, Official Irish Republican Army officer, killed in feud with Irish National Liberation Army (born 1927).
25 October – Padraig Marrinan, artist (born 1906).
25 November – Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (born 1895).

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