1963 in Northern Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Golf 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Distillery

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Distillery

[edit] Golf

• British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: Brigitte Varangot).

[edit] Births

• 18 February - Martin Treanor, writer.
• 10 July - Conor Murphy, Sinn Féin MP and MLA.
• 30 July - Thomas Buchanan, Democratic Unionist Party MLA.
• 9 August - Sam Storey, boxer.
• 25 August - Candida Doyle, keyboard player.
• 12 October - Alan McDonald, footballer and football manager.
• 27 October - Johnny Adair, loyalist paramilitary.
• 11 December - Tom Elliott, Ulster Unionist Party MLA.
• Richard English, historian.
• David Hilditch - Democratic Unionist Party MLA.
• Patrick McWilliams, author.
• Siobhán O'Hanlon, Sinn Féin official (d.2006).

[edit] Deaths

• 22 November - C. S. Lewis, novelist and author of The Chronicles of Narnia (b.1898).
• 30 November - Dehra Parker, longest serving woman MP in Northern Ireland and first woman to serve in the Northern Ireland Cabinet.
• December - Andy Kennedy, footballer (b.1897).