1975 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1975 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State - Merlyn Rees

Events

 * 31 July – Miami Showband killings: Three members of The Miami Showband, together with two paramilitaries, are killed in an Ulster Volunteer Force ambush in County Down as they return home to Dublin from playing at a dance in Banbridge.

Arts and literature

 * 14 May – Patrick Galvin's We Do It For Love, a satire on The Troubles, opens at the Lyric Theatre (Belfast).
 * October – Stewart Parker's Spokesong opens at the Lyric (Belfast); his play I’m a Dreamer, Montreal is also written this year.
 * The punk rock/new wave band which will become The Undertones is formed in Derry.
 * William Peskett's poems The Nightowl's Dissection are published.

Football

 * Irish League
 * Winners: Linfield
 * Ballinamallard United F.C. established


 * Irish Cup
 * Winners: Coleraine 1 – 1, 0 – 0, 1 – 0 Linfield

Births

 * 18 February – Keith Gillespie, international soccer player.
 * 9 June – Brian Magee, boxer.
 * 21 July - Cara Dillon, folk singer
 * 24 July – Gordon Cooke, cricketer.
 * 27 August – Kyle McCallan, cricketer.
 * 4 September – Andrew Patterson, cricketer.
 * 13 October – Oisín McConville, Armagh Gaelic footballer.
 * 4 November – Warren Christie, actor.

Full date unknown
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 * Nick Laird, novelist and poet.

Deaths

 * 23 February – Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (born 1889).
 * 28 April – Billy McMillen, Official Irish Republican Army officer, killed in feud with Irish National Liberation Army (born 1927).
 * 25 October – Padraig Marrinan, artist (born 1906).
 * 25 November – Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (born 1895).