1965 in Northern Ireland

← 1964 1963 1962 1965 in Northern Ireland → 1966 1967 1968
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	1965 in the United Kingdom 1965 in Ireland Other events of 1965 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events

• January 14 - Taoiseach Seán Lemass travels to Belfast for an historic meeting with the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill. First meeting of Prime Ministers in 43 years.
• January 21 - Nationalist leader Eddie McAteer visits Taoiseach Seán Lemass in Dublin.
• March 18 - The Northern Ireland Minister for Agriculture, Harry West attends a meeting with his Southern counterpart, Charles Haughey, in Dublin.

Arts and literature

• Publication of Ten Poems by Michael Longley and Twelve Poems by Derek Mahon.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Derry City

• Irish Cup

Winners: Coleraine 2 - 1 Glenavon

Births

January to June

• 6 January - Esmond Birnie, Ulster Unionist Party former MLA and author.
• 15 January - James Nesbitt, actor.
• 26 January - Seán Savage, volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (killed by SAS soldiers during Operation Flavius 1988).
• 10 February - Richard Orr, actor.
• 20 February - Miriam Mone, fashion designer (died 2007).
• 2 March - Lembit Öpik, UK Liberal Party MP.
• 3 May - Gary Mitchell, playwright.
• 7 May - Norman Whiteside, footballer.
• 30 May - Briana Corrigan, singer.

July to December

• 1 July - Jackie McKernan, discus thrower.
• 20 July - Andy Black, poker player.
• 24 July - Frank Mitchell, television presenter.
• 22 September - Andy Cairns, songwriter and musician.
• 10 November - Eddie Irvine, racecar driver.
• 16 December - Noel Magee, boxer.

Full date unknown

• Mark Carruthers, radio and television journalist.
• Joe Ferguson, radio presenter.
• Brian Irvine, composer.
• Edwin Poots, Democratic Unionist Party MLA.
• Paul Seawright, artist.
• Jim Shannon, Democratic Unionist Party MLA.

Deaths

• 15 February - Sam Thompson, playwright (born 1916).
• Helen Waddell, poet, translator and playwright (born 1889).