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Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	1954 in the United Kingdom 1954 in Ireland Other events of 1954 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events during the year1954 in Northern Ireland.

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

• 6 April –Flags and Emblems (Display) Act (Northern Ireland) is introduced, making it illegal to interfere with the display of aUnion Flag and giving theRoyal Ulster Constabulary the right to remove any other flag or emblem if it is thought that it might lead to a breach of peace.^[1]
• 12 June – AnIrish Republican Army unit carries out a successful arms raid onGough Barracks inArmagh signalling the renewal of IRA activity following a long hiatus.
• 17 August –Ocean linerSSSouthern Cross is launched byHarland and Wolff inBelfast.^[2]
• TheRepublican political partyFianna Uladh is formed byLiam Kelly as the political wing ofSaor Uladh.^[3]
• Roselawn Cemetery opens in Belfast.^[4]

• John Hewitt'sThe Bloody Brae: A Dramatic Poem (1936) is first broadcast on theBBC Northern IrelandHome Service.^{[citation needed]}

• Irish League

Winners:Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners:Derry City 2 – 2, 0 – 0, 1 – 0Glentoran

• 9 March –Bobby Sands,Provisional Irish Republican Armyvolunteer and MP (died onhunger strike1981).
• 8 April –Joe Kernan, Gaelic footballer and manager.
• 28 April –Monica McWilliams,Northern Ireland Women's CoalitionMLA, later Chief Commissioner of theNorthern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
• 11 May –Jane Morrice, Northern Ireland Women's Coalition MLA.
• 23 May –Gerry Armstrong, footballer.
• 23 June –Michael Copeland, Unionist politician.
• 2 August –Sammy McIlroy, footballer and football manager.
• 28 August –Clive Culbertson,mystic,musician andhealer.
• 12 October –Kieran Deeny,medical doctor turned independent politician and MLA.
• 19 October –Angela Feeney, opera singer.
• Eamon Collins, Provisional Irish Republican Army activist and writer (died1999).
• Martin O'Brien, journalist.
• Marian Price, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer.

• 1 May –James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman,Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (born1865).
• 11 October –Thomas Teevan, Unionist politician and lawyer (born1927).

• 1954 in Scotland
• 1954 in Wales

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