1954 in Northern Ireland

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.
 * 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.
 * The Republican political party Fianna Uladh is formed by Liam Kelly as the political wing of Saor Uladh.
 * Roselawn Cemetery opens in Belfast.

Arts and literature

 * John Hewitt's The Bloody Brae: A Dramatic Poem (1936) is first broadcast on the BBC Northern Ireland Home Service.

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).