1950 in Northern Ireland

• Governor - Earl Granville • Prime Minister - Basil Brooke ==Events==

• 12 March – Llandow air disaster: 83 people die when a plane carrying Welsh rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in South Wales. • 12 May – Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad. • 3 July – Ulster Transport Authority closes the Ballycastle Railway and the Ballymena and Larne Railway. ==Arts and literature==

• September - Poet Philip Larkin takes up a 5-year post as sub-librarian at Queen's University Belfast. ==Sport==

This was the only year where Ireland didn't participate at the Commonwealth Games. (British Empire Games) Football • Irish League ::Winners: Linfield • Irish Cup ::Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Distillery Golf • British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club (winner:Vicomtesse de St Sauveur). ==Births==

• 22 January – Paul Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University of Belfast. • 16 February – Peter Hain, 16th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. • 12 April – Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor. • 23 May – Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin MP, MLA and Deputy First Minister (died 2017). • 23 June – Martin O'Hagan, journalist (died 2001). • 9 July – Alban Maginness, SDLP MLA. • 12 August – Medbh McGuckian, poet. • 28 September – Brian Keenan, writer and hostage in Lebanon. • 16 December – Dolours Price, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and political activist (died 2013). • Denis Donaldson, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, member of Sinn Féin, exposed in 2005 as an informer (died 2006). ==Deaths==

• 20 July – Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (born 1880). • James Sleator, painter (born 1889). ==See also==