1954 in Northern Ireland

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6 April – Flags and Emblems (Display) Act (Northern Ireland) is introduced, making it illegal to interfere with the display of a Union Flag and giving the Royal Ulster Constabulary the right to remove any other flag or emblem if it is thought that it might lead to a breach of peace.^[1]
12 June – An Irish Republican Army unit carries out a successful arms raid on Gough Barracks in Armagh signalling the renewal of IRA activity following a long hiatus.
17 August – Ocean liner SS Southern Cross is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
The Republican political party Fianna Uladh is formed by Liam Kelly as the political wing of Saor Uladh.^[2]
Roselawn Cemetery opens in Belfast.

John Hewitt's The Bloody Brae: A Dramatic Poem (1936) is first broadcast on the BBC Northern Ireland Home Service.

Winners: Linfield

Winners: Derry City 2 – 2, 0 – 0, 1 – 0 Glentoran

9 March – Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and MP who died on hunger strike (died 1981).
8 April – Joe Kernan, Gaelic footballer and manager.
28 April – Monica McWilliams, former Northern Ireland Women's Coalition politician and currently Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
11 May – Jane Morrice, former Northern Ireland Women's Coalition MLA.
23 May – Gerry Armstrong, footballer.
23 June – Michael Copeland, Unionist politician.
2 August – Sammy McIlroy, footballer and football manager.
28 August – Clive Culbertson, mystic, musician and healer.
12 October – Kieran Deeny, medical doctor turned independent politician and MLA.
19 October – Angela Feeney, opera singer.
Eamon Collins, Provisional Irish Republican Army activist and writer (died 1999).
Martin O'Brien, journalist.
Marian Price, former volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

1 May – James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (born 1865).
11 October – Thomas Leslie Teevan, Unionist politician and lawyer (born 1927).

↑ "Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
↑ Hanley, Brian; Millar, Scott (2009). The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party. Dublin: Penguin Ireland. p. 11.

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