1952 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1952 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

 * Governor - 	Earl Granville (until 1 December), The Lord Wakehurst (from 1 December)
 * Prime Minister - Basil Brooke

Events

 * August - Official opening of Binnian Tunnel (2.5 mi), feeding water to the Silent Valley Reservoir under the Mourne Mountains.
 * 12 November – Murder of Patricia Curran, 19-year-old daughter of Sir Lancelot Curran. Iain Hay Gordon was found guilty of her murder, but the sentence was overturned in 2000.

Arts and literature

 * Daniel O'Neill paints Birth.

Football

 * Irish League
 * Winners: Glenavon


 * Irish Cup
 * Winners: Ards 1 - 0 Glentoran

Births

 * 8 January – Alex Maskey, first Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor and MLA.
 * 18 January – Derek Spence, footballer.
 * 25 February – Joey Dunlop, motorcycle racer (died 2000).
 * 1 March – Martin O'Neill, international footballer and football manager.
 * 2 March – Lenny Murphy, loyalist paramilitary and leader of the Shankill Butchers (died 1982).
 * 4 April – Gary Moore, guitarist.
 * 7 June – Liam Neeson, actor.
 * 25 June – Alan Green, sports broadcaster.
 * 17 October – Graham Forsythe, artist.
 * 20 December – Terry George, screenwriter and director.

Full date unknown

 * Gerald Dawe, writer and poet.
 * John Linehan, comedian (May McFettridge).
 * Tommy McKearney, former hunger striker and member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, now a journalist.
 * William Peskett, poet.
 * Tommy McKearney, former hunger striker and member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, now a journalist.
 * William Peskett, poet.

Deaths

 * Louisa Watson Peat, writer and lecturer (born 1883)