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Events during the year 1955 in Northern Ireland.
- Winners:
Linfield
- Winners:
Dundela 3 - 0
Glenavon
- 11 January –
Brian Gregory, footballer.
- 20 January –
Joe Doherty,
volunteer in the
Provisional Irish Republican Army.
- 25 February –
Davy Hyland,
Sinn Féin, later independent,
MLA.
- 28 March –
John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice,
Alliance Party politician and Speaker of the
Northern Ireland Assembly 1998–2004.
- 2 April –
Michael Stone,
Ulster loyalist
paramilitary.
- 30 April –
BJ Hogg, actor (died
2020).
- 23 June –
Ken Reid, television journalist.
- 6 July –
Michael Boyd, theatre director (died
2023).
- 1 August –
Adrian Logan, television sports presenter and reporter.
- 27 September
- 30 September –
Frankie Kennedy, traditional
flute and
tin whistle player and co-founder of
Altan (died
1994).
- 16 October –
Kieran Doherty,
volunteer in the
Provisional Irish Republican Army (died
1981 on
hunger strike).
- 7 December –
John McClelland, footballer.
- Undated
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