1977 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1977 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State - Roy Mason

Events

 * The overt British Army lead in security policy is scaled back in favour of police primacy during the year.
 * 29 May - A massive peace rally takes place in Belfast organized by Betty Williams, Mairéad Corrigan and Ciarán McKeown.
 * May - Shankill Butchers are arrested.
 * 10 August - Elizabeth II visits Northern Ireland as part of her Silver Jubilee celebrations under tight security.
 * September - Rev. Ian Paisley launches the Save Ulster from Sodomy campaign to oppose the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
 * 10 October - The Peace Movement founders, Mairéad Corrigan and Betty Williams win the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Football

 * Irish League
 * Winners: Glentoran


 * Irish Cup
 * Winners: Coleraine 4 - 1 Linfield

Golf

 * Moyola Park Golf Club is founded.

Births

 * 4 January - Tim Wheeler, singer-songwriter and guitarist.
 * 7 January - Tomm Moore, twice Oscar nominated animator and film maker.
 * 10 January - Michelle O'Neill, Sinn Féin leader.
 * 10 March - Colin Murray, radio DJ.
 * 16 July - Bryan Budd, Parachute Regiment Corporal, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross (killed on active service 2006 in Afghanistan).
 * 10 August - Danny Griffin, footballer.
 * 23 August - Davy Larmour, footballer.
 * 11 September - Enda Muldoon, Gaelic footballer.
 * 15 October - Paul McKee, sprint athlete.
 * 6 December - Paul McVeigh, footballer.
 * 16 December - Darren Fitzgerald, footballer.

Deaths

 * 3 March - Brian Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick, sixth and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Ulster Unionist Party MP (born 1921).
 * 17 April - William Conway, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh (born 1913).
 * 24 April - Geoffrey Bing, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (born 1909).
 * 2 June - Stephen Boyd, actor (born 1931).
 * 1 August - Bill Loughery, cricketer (born 1907).