22 March – Civil rights demonstrations take place all over
Northern Ireland.
17 April –
Bernadette Devlin, the 21-year-old student and civil rights campaigner, wins the Mid-Ulster by-election. She is the youngest female U.K.
Member of Parliament ever.
14 August –
James Chichester-Clark, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, calls for the mobilisation of British troops on the streets of Northern Ireland:[3] start of
Operation Banner.[1]
August – Andrew Boyd's historical work Holy War in Belfast is published in
Tralee; it goes through 6 impressions in 3 years.
10 October – The Hunt Committee Report recommends an unarmed civil police force in
Northern Ireland.[4]
25 November – Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) becomes law, granting
universal suffrage for adults in local government elections by removing property franchises.[4]
27 November – Commissioner for Complaints appointed for local government and public bodies in Northern Ireland.[4]
Publication of
Padraic Fiacc's own poems, By the Black Stream, and his edited collection of poetry by contemporaries surrounding the topic of
The Troubles, The Wearing of the Black.
Publication of
John Hewitt's collection The Day of the Corncrake: Poems of the Nine Glens with paintings by
Charles McAuley.[5]