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1945
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See also:
1946 in the United Kingdom
1946 in Ireland
Other events of 1946
List of years in Northern Ireland
Events during the year
1946 in Northern Ireland
.
Incumbents
Governor
-
Earl Granville
Prime Minister
-
Basil Brooke
Events
19 March – British Royal Navy aircraft carrier
HMS
Eagle
(R05)
(laid down 1942) is launched at the
Harland and Wolff
shipyard in Belfast. Work on HMS
Powerful
is suspended this year until she is recommenced in 1952 as
HMCS
Bonaventure
(CVL 22)
.
6 June –
1946 Down by-election
: The
Ulster Unionist Party
gain
Down
in a by-election.
1 December –
Nutts Corner
opens as Northern Ireland's principal civil airport, replacing
Belfast Harbour
.
Homeless families from
Derry
begin to occupy the former
United States Navy
Springtown Camp.
[1]
Arts and literature
John Luke
holds his first one-man exhibition, at the
Belfast Museum and Art Gallery
, and paints
Northern Rhythm
.
Births
January to June
9 February –
Seán Neeson
,
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
politician
26 March –
Carmel Hanna
,
SDLP
MLA
.
30 April –
Fred Cobain
,
Ulster Unionist Party
MLA
4 May –
John Watson
, racing car driver.
22 May –
George Best
, footballer (died
2005
).
25 May –
Norah Beare
,
Ulster Unionist
, later
Democratic Unionist Party
, politician.
21 June –
Kate Hoey
,
Labour Party
politician in the United Kingdom.
30 June –
Allan Hunter
, footballer.
July to December
31 October –
Stephen Rea
, actor.
28 November –
Barry Devlin
, bass-player with
Horslips
.
31 December –
Bryan Hamilton
, footballer and football manager.
Full date unknown
Maurice Harron
, sculptor.
Inez McCormack
, trade union leader (died
2013
).
Tom McGurk
, poet, journalist and broadcaster.
Freddie Scappaticci
, accused of being a high-level
double agent
in the
Provisional Irish Republican Army
.
Raymond Snoddy
, journalist and broadcaster.
See also
1946 in Scotland
1946 in Wales
References
^
"Springtown Camp from the inside"
.
Springtown Camp 1946-1967
. 2006. Archived from
the original
on 21 March 2012
. Retrieved
12 March
2011
.
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