1960 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 16 March – Passenger liner 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.
• 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.
• 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).

References

References

1. "Airport History". George Best Belfast City Airport.
2. (27 January 2010). "Plaque to mark Belfast playwright". BBC NI News (26 January 2010).