1945 in Northern Ireland

← 1944 1943 1942 1945 in Northern Ireland → 1946 1947 1948
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	1945 in the United Kingdom 1945 in Ireland Other events of 1945 List of years in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Monarch - George VI

Events

• 27 February - Aircraft carrier HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast to British Admiralty order as HMS Powerful.
• 8 May - V-E Day is celebrated throughout the UK.
• 14 May - Formal surrender of German U-boats at Londonderry Port (HMS Ferret, Lisahally).
• 16 May - Éamon de Valera replies in a radio broadcast to Winston Churchill's criticism of Irish neutrality.
• 26 July - United Kingdom general election, 1945.
• 15 August- V-J Day is celebrated in the UK.
• 21 August - Two Nationalist Members of Parliament, Eddie McAteer and Malachy Conlon, take the Oath of Allegiance and enter the Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminster.
• 15 October - Professor Eoin MacNeill dies in Dublin aged 77. He was a founder-member of the Gaelic League and the Irish Volunteers.
• 14 November - A convention meeting in Dungannon establishes the nationalist Irish Anti-Partition League.^[1]

Arts and literature

• John Luke paints The Old Callan Bridge and The Three Dancers.
• F. L. Green's novel Odd Man Out is published.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 4 - 2 Glentoran

Births

• 29 January - Jim Nicholson, Unionist politician and MEP for Northern Ireland.
• 12 June - Pat Jennings, former international soccer player.
• 4 July - David McWilliams, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (died 2002).
• 16 August - Allan Bresland, DUP Northern Ireland Assembly member for West Tyrone.
• 25 August - Sammy Duddy, member of the Ulster Political Research Group (died 2007).
• 31 August - Van Morrison, singer and songwriter.
• 15 September - Dave Clements, former soccer player and manager.
• 21 September - Shaw Clifton, General of The Salvation Army.
• 17 October - Jimmy Cricket (James Mulgrew), comedian.
• 31 October - Bobbie Hanvey, photographer and radio personality.
• 17 November - Damien Magee, racing driver.
• 5 December - Evin Crowley, actress.

Eoin MacNeill

Full date unknown

• Brendan Hamill, poet and writer.
• Martin Meehan, Sinn Féin politician and former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (died 2007).
• Graham Reid, playwright.
• James A. Sharkey, historian and Irish diplomat.

Deaths

• 13 October - Joseph MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (born 1861).
• 15 October - Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary (born 1867).
• 20 December - John M. Lyle, architect in Canada (born 1872).

References