1977 in Northern Ireland explained

Events during the year 1977 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

The overt British Army lead in security policy is scaled back in favour of police primacy during the year.^[1]
29 May - A massive peace rally takes place in Belfast organized by Betty Williams, Mairéad Corrigan and Ciarán McKeown.
May - Shankill Butchers are arrested.^[2]
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.^[3]
10 October - The Peace Movement founders, Mairéad Corrigan and Betty Williams win the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Winners: Glentoran

Winners: Coleraine 4 - 1 Linfield

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.

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).

Book: Edwards, Aaron. The Northern Ireland Troubles: Operation Banner 1969-2007. Oxford. Osprey Publishing. 2011. 978-1-84908-525-0.
Web site: A Chronology of the Conflict - 1979. Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). 29 January 2010.
News: Paisley campaigns to 'save Ulster from Sodomy'. The Irish Times. 7. 20 October 1977. 2008-05-07.