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EVENTS

April 17 - At midnight 26 counties officially leave the British Commonwealth . A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge , Dublin , ushers in the Republic Of Ireland .

May 3 - The British Government passes an act guaranteeing the position of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom as long as a majority of its citizens want it to be. The government also recognises the existence of the Republic Of Ireland .

May 10 - The Oireachtas motion calls a "Protest Against Partition" because of the Ireland Act provisions.

May 13 - John A. Costello , Eamon De Valera , William Norton and Seán MacBride share a platform to protest the British government's attitude to the constitutional status of Northern Ireland .

May 25 - Princess Elizabeth and the Duke Of Edinburgh receive the freedom of Belfast during a visit to the city.

November 8 - Street names in any language other than English are prohibited by an Amendment to a Bill passed in the Senate of Northern Ireland .

ARTS AND LITERATURE

SPORT

Football

Irish League

Winners:

Irish Cup

Winners:

Belfast Celtic withdrew from the Irish League at the end of a season which had seen crowd trouble at a match against Linfield five months earlier.

BIRTHS

25 January - Tom Paulin , poet and critic.

6 August - Alan Campbell , Pentecostal Pastor .

1 September - Alasdair McDonnell , Social Democratic And Labour Party MP and MLA .

6 September - Iris Robinson , Democratic Unionist Party MP for Strangford and member of the Northern Ireland Assembly .

18 September - Mo Mowlam , 11th Secretary Of State For Northern Ireland .

Pat Finucane , Solicitor murdered by Loyalist paramilitaries (d. 1989 ).

DEATHS

2 March - Cecil Lowry-Corry, 6th Earl Belmore , High Sheriff and councillor (b. 1873 ).

19 September - George Shiels , dramatist (b. 1886 ).

Robert Wilson Lynd , writer (b. 1879 ).