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This is a list of events that happened in Northern Ireland in 1944.

Events

• March 13 - The British Government bans all travel between Great Britain and Ireland.
• August 22 - Men from Tyrone and Fermanagh form an Anti-Partition League in Dublin.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Belfast Celtic 3 - 1 Linfield

Births

• 5 January - Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, businessman.
• 27 January - Mairead Corrigan, peace activist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 20 March - Alan Harper, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (2007 - ).
• 28 May - Patricia Quinn, actress.
• 3 June - Thomas Burns, Bishop of the Forces.
• 8 June - David Craig, footballer.
• 24 July - Jim Armstrong, guitarist.
• 15 October - David Trimble, former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Ian Adamson - former Ulster Unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast.
• Gerry Anderson, radio and television broadcaster.
• George Jones, radio and television broadcaster.
• Nell McCafferty, journalist, writer and playwright.
• Colin McClelland, retired journalist.
• Ruth Patterson, first woman to be ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

Deaths

• June - Joseph Campbell, poet and lyricist (b.1879).
• 28 November - Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet, Unionist MP and Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland 1925-1937 (b.1864).

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