Events

• 8 May - V-E Day is celebrated throughout the UK.
• 16 May - Éamon de Valera replies in a radio broadcast to Winston Churchill's criticism of Irish neutrality.
• 26 July - United Kingdom general election, 1945.
• 15 August- V-J Day is celebrated in the UK.
• 21 August - Two nationalist MPs take the Oath of Allegiance and enter the Westminster parliament.
• 15 October - Professor Eoin MacNeill dies in Dublin aged 77. He was a founder-member of the Gaelic League and the Irish Volunteers.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 4 - 2 Glentoran

Births

• 29 January - Jim Nicholson, Unionist politician and MEP for Northern Ireland.
• 12 June - Pat Jennings, former international soccer player.
• 4 July - David McWilliams, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (d.2002).
• 16 August - Allan Bresland, DUP Northern Ireland Assembly member for West Tyrone.
• 25 August - Sammy Duddy, member of the Ulster Political Research Group (d.2007).
• 31 August - Van Morrison, singer and songwriter.
• 15 September - Dave Clements, former soccer player and manager.
• 21 September - Shaw Clifton, General of The Salvation Army.
• 31 October - Bobbie Hanvey, photographer and radio personality.
• 17 November - Damien Magee, racing driver.
• 5 December - Evin Crowley, actress.

Full date unknown

• Brendan Hamill, poet and writer.
• Martin Meehan, Sinn Féin politician and former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (d.2007).
• Graham Reid, playwright.
• James A. Sharkey, historian and Irish diplomat.

Deaths

• 13 October - Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (b.1861).
• 15 October - Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary (b.1867).
• 20 December - John M. Lyle, architect in Canada (b.1872).