Events during the year 1960 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents Governor - The Lord Wakehurst Prime Minister - Basil Brooke

Events 16 March – Passenger liner is launched at the Harland & 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 & 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).

Sport 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).

See also 1960 in Scotland 1960 in Wales

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