1952 in Northern Ireland

Centuries:	20th; 21st;
Decades:	1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s;
See also:	1952 in the United Kingdom; 1952 in Ireland; Other events of 1952; List of years in Northern Ireland;

Events during the year 1952 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

August - Official opening of Binnian Tunnel (2.5 miles (4.0 km)), feeding water to the Silent Valley Reservoir under the Mourne Mountains.^[1]
12 November – Murder of Patricia Curran, 19-year-old daughter of Sir Lancelot Curran. Iain Hay Gordon was found guilty of her murder, but the sentence was overturned in 2000.^[2]

Winners: Glenavon

Winners: Ards 1 - 0 Glentoran

8 January – Alex Maskey, first Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor and MLA.
18 January – Derek Spence, footballer.
25 February – Joey Dunlop, motorcycle racer (died 2000).
1 March – Martin O'Neill, international footballer and football manager.
2 March – Lenny Murphy, loyalist paramilitary and leader of the Shankill Butchers (died 1982).
27 March – Linda Martin, singer.^[4]
4 April – Gary Moore, guitarist.
22 April – Gerald Dawe, writer and poet.
7 June – Liam Neeson, actor.
25 June – Alan Green, sports broadcaster.
17 October – Graham Forsythe, artist.
20 December – Terry George, screenwriter and film director.

↑ "Your Place And Mine - Down - Binnian Tunnel - Introduction and Background". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
↑ "Murder in the glen". The Irish Times. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
↑ Reihill, Karen. "Daniel O'Neill: A mysterious painter pervaded by darkness". The Irish Times. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
↑ Sources seem to vary on Martin's date of birth. On 14 April 2019, the Sunday Independent stated that Martin was 72. On 21 April 2019, the Sunday Independent writer noted that Martin had "contacted us to say she was actually 67 on March 27" Archived 24 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine