1960 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1960 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

 * Governor - 	The Lord Wakehurst
 * Prime Minister - Basil Brooke

Events

 * 16 March – Passenger liner SS Canberra is launched at the Harland and 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.
 * 13 April – MV Arlanza becomes the last passenger liner launched by Harland and 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.
 * 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).

Football

 * Irish League
 * Winners: Glenavon


 * Irish Cup
 * Winners: Linfield 5 - 1 Ards

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
 * Dominic Bradley, SDLP MLA.
 * Thomas Burns, SDLP MLA.
 * 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).