1960 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1960 in Northern Ireland.
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Incumbents
Events
- 16 March – Passenger liner SS Canberra is launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast for P&O.
- 6 April – Short SC.1 VTOL research aircraft makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight and back, flying from Belfast Harbour Airport.[1]
- 13 April – MV Arlanza becomes the last passenger liner launched by Harland & Wolff in Belfast (for Royal Mail Line).
Arts and literature
- 26 January – First staging of Sam Thompson's play Over the Bridge, at the Empire Theatre, Belfast.[2]
- 13–18 February - Orson Welles opens for the last time in a stage production, his adaptation Chimes at Midnight with the Gate Theatre Company, at the Grand Opera House, Belfast (transferring in March to Dublin).
Sport
Football
- Winners: Glenavon
Births
- 23 April – Barry Douglas, classical pianist.
- 30 April – Colonel Tim Collins, British Commander in Iraq.
- 6 May – Roma Downey, actress and producer.
- 13 May – Michael Savage, Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament.
- 8 June – Peter Heather, historian.
- 7 July – Billy Wright, leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (died 1997).
- 20 August – Deirdre Madden, author.
- 27 August – Mark Caughey, footballer.
- 29 August
- 10 October – Arlene McCarthy, Labour Party Member of the European Parliament.
- 25 November – Robert Dunlop, motorcycle racer (died 2008).
- 10 December – Kenneth Branagh, actor and director.
Full date unknown
- Ian McDonald, science fiction novelist.
- Jeff McWhinney, deaf community activist.
Deaths
- 9 March – Jack Beattie, Labour politician (born 1886).
- 13 June – Ken McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (born 1881).
- 20 July – Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore, soldier and Deputy Lieutenant for County Fermanagh (born 1913).
- 1 September – Robert Moore, minister of religion and politician (born 1886).
- 25 October – Harry Ferguson, early aviator and developer of the modern agricultural tractor (born 1884).