1979 in Northern Ireland

1979
in
Northern Ireland

Centuries:
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
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Events during the year 1979 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

Events

January to March

  • 5 January - Two members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) are killed in Ardoyne, Belfast, when the car bomb they are transporting explodes prematurely.[1]
  • 4 February - A former prison officer and his wife are shot dead at their home in Oldpark Road, Belfast, by the IRA.[1]
  • 20 February - Eleven Loyalists, known as the Shankill Butchers, are sentenced to life imprisonment for 112 offences, including nineteen sectarian murders.[1][2]
  • 24 February - Two Catholic teenagers, mistaken in the dark for a British Army foot patrol, are killed by the IRA in a remote-controlled bomb explosion at Darkley, County Armagh.[1]
  • 16 March - The Bennett Report, investigating allegations of ill treatment of people held in interrogation centres in Northern Ireland, is published and Government undertakes to implement major recommendations.[1]
  • 22 March - The IRA kills Richard Sykes, British Ambassador to the Netherlands, and his Dutch valet, in a gun attack in The Hague, Netherlands.[3]
  • 22 March - The IRA carries out a series of attacks across Northern Ireland with 24 bomb explosions.[1]
  • 30 March - Airey Neave, Conservative Party Spokesman on Northern Ireland, is killed by an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) booby-trap bomb attached to his car at the House of Commons, London.[3]

April to June

July to September

Sport

Football

Winners: Linfield
Winners: Cliftonville 3 - 2 Portadown

Motorcycling

Births

January to June

July to December

Deaths

Full date unknown

See also

References

  1. "A Chronology of the Conflict - 1979". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 29 January 2010.
  2. Larkspirit Irish History Archived 23 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Sutton Index of Deaths - 1979". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Archived from the original on 9 January 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
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