{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Use British English|date=February 2012}} {{YearInNorthernIrelandNav|1954}} Events during the year '''1954 in Northern Ireland'''.

==Incumbents== * Governor - The Lord Wakehurst * Prime Minister - Basil Brooke

==Events== * 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events|work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm|accessdate=28 January 2010}}</ref> * 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Southern Cross – TGOL|url=http://thegreatoceanliners.com/articles/southern-cross/|access-date=2020-07-03|language=en-GB}}</ref> * The Republican political party Fianna Uladh is formed by Liam Kelly as the political wing of Saor Uladh.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hanley|first1=Brian|last2=Millar|first2=Scott|year=2009|title=The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party|location=Dublin|publisher=Penguin Ireland|page=11}}</ref> * Roselawn Cemetery opens in Belfast.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Roselawn Cemetery - Belfast City Council|url=https://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/community/cemeteries/roselawncemetery.aspx|access-date=2020-07-03|website=belfastcity.gov.uk}}</ref>

==Arts and literature== *John Hewitt's ''The Bloody Brae: A Dramatic Poem'' (1936) is first broadcast on the BBC Northern Ireland Home Service.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

==Sport== ===Football=== *'''Irish League''' ::'''Winners:''' Linfield

*'''Irish Cup''' ::'''Winners:''' Derry City 2 – 2, 0 – 0, 1 – 0 Glentoran

==Births== *9 March – Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and MP (died on hunger strike 1981). *8 April – Joe Kernan, Gaelic footballer and manager. *28 April – Monica McWilliams, Northern Ireland Women's Coalition MLA, later Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. *11 May – Jane Morrice, 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, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer.

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

==See also== *1954 in Scotland *1954 in Wales

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