1960 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1960 in Northern Ireland.

← 1959 1958 1957 1960 in Northern Ireland → 1961 1962 1963
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	1960 in the United Kingdom 1960 in Ireland Other events of 1960 List of years in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Governor - The Lord Wakehurst
• Prime Minister - Basil Brooke

Events

• 16 March – Passenger liner SS Canberra is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast (for P&O).
• 6 April – Short SC.1 VTOL research aircraft makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight and back, flying from Belfast Harbour Airport.^[1]
• 13 April – MV Arlanza becomes the last passenger liner launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast (for Royal Mail Line).

Arts and literature

• 26 January – First staging of Sam Thompson's play Over the Bridge, at the Empire Theatre, Belfast.^[2]
• 13–18 February - Orson Welles opens for the last time in a stage production, his adaptation Chimes at Midnight with the Gate Theatre Company, at the Grand Opera House, Belfast (transferring in March to Dublin).

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Glenavon

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 5 - 1 Ards

Births

• 23 April – Barry Douglas, classical pianist.
• 30 April – Colonel Tim Collins, British Commander in Iraq.
• 6 May – Roma Downey, actress and producer.
• 13 May – Michael Savage, Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament.
• 8 June – Peter Heather, historian.
• 7 July – Billy Wright, leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (died 1997).
• 20 August – Deirdre Madden, author.
• 27 August – Mark Caughey, footballer.
• 29 August
  • Dominic Bradley, SDLP MLA.
  • Thomas Burns, SDLP MLA.
• 10 October – Arlene McCarthy, Labour Party Member of the European Parliament.
• 25 November – Robert Dunlop, motorcycle racer (died 2008).
• 10 December – Kenneth Branagh, actor and director.

Full date unknown

• Ian McDonald, science fiction novelist.
• Jeff McWhinney, deaf community activist.

Deaths

• 9 March – Jack Beattie, Labour politician (born 1886).
• 13 June – Ken McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (born 1881).
• 20 July – Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore, soldier and Deputy Lieutenant for County Fermanagh (born 1913).
• 1 September – Robert Moore, minister of religion and politician (born 1886).
• 25 October – Harry Ferguson, early aviator and developer of the modern agricultural tractor (born 1884).

See also

• 1960 in Scotland
• 1960 in Wales