1977 in Northern Ireland

← 1976 1975 1974 1977 in Northern Ireland → 1978 1979 1980
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
See also:	1977 in the United Kingdom 1977 in Ireland Other events of 1977 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events

• The overt British Army lead in security policy is scaled back in favour of police primacy during the year.^[1]
• 29 May - A massive peace rally takes place in Belfast organized by Betty Williams, Mairéad Corrigan and Ciarán McKeown.
• May - Shankill Butchers are arrested.^[2]
• 10 August - Elizabeth II visits Northern Ireland as part of her Silver Jubilee celebrations under tight security.
• September - Rev. Ian Paisley launches the Save Ulster from Sodomy campaign to oppose the decriminalisation of homosexuality.^[3]
• 10 October - The Peace Movement founders, Mairéad Corrigan and Betty Williams win the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

• Irish Cup

Winners: Coleraine 4 - 1 Linfield

Golf

• Moyola Park Golf Club is founded.

Births

• 7 January - Tomm Moore, twice Oscar nominated animator and film maker.
• 10 March- Colin Murray, Radio DJ.
• 16 July - Bryan Budd, Parachute Regiment Corporal killed on active service in Afghanistan and posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross (died 2006).
• 10 August - Danny Griffin, footballer.
• 23 August - Davy Larmour, footballer.
• 11 September - Enda Muldoon, Gaelic footballer.
• 15 October - Paul McKee, sprint athlete.
• 6 December - Paul McVeigh, footballer.
• 16 December - Darren Fitzgerald, footballer.

Deaths

• 3 March - Brian Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick, sixth and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Ulster Unionist Party MP (born 1921).
• 17 April - William Conway, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh (born 1913).
• 24 April - Geoffrey Bing, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (born 1909).
• 2 June - Stephen Boyd, actor (born 1931).
• 1 August - Bill Loughery, cricketer (born 1907).

References

1. Edwards, Aaron (2011). The Northern Ireland Troubles: Operation Banner 1969-2007. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84908-525-0.
2. "A Chronology of the Conflict - 1979". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 29 January 2010.
3. "Paisley campaigns to 'save Ulster from Sodomy'". The Irish Times. 20 October 1977. p. 7. Retrieved 2008-05-07.