5 March – Merlyn Rees becomes Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.[1]
30 March – Major incendiary bomb attack on Bangor town centre.
2 May – The Ulster Volunteer Force launch a bomb attack on the Rose & Crown bar on the Ormeau Road in Belfast. Five people die in the explosion with a sixth subsequently succumbing to his injuries.[2]
15 December – Price sisters transferred to an English jail (following hunger strike which had ended in June).[1]
18 December – Government announces compensation payments for relatives of Bloody Sunday victims, according to the Ministry of Defence "in a spirit of goodwill and conciliation".[4]
22 December – Second cease-fire between IRA and British (lasts until about April 1975).[1]
Full date unknown
Junior Orange Institution is formed; a branch of the Orange Order which only accepts boys under the age of 16.[5]
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