1937 in Northern Ireland
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:YearInNorthernIrelandNav Events during the year 1937 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
- 28 February – Population census in Northern Ireland.[1]
- 28 July – Assassination attempt on King George VI in Belfast by the Irish Republican Army.[2]
Arts and literature
- Louis MacNeice writes the poem Carrickfergus.
Sport
Football
- Winners: Belfast Celtic
- Winners: Belfast Celtic 3 - 0 Linfield
Births
- 18 January – John Hume, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, MP, MEP and Nobel Peace Prize winner (died 2020).
- 10 February – Roy Megarry, businessman and publisher in Canada.
- 2 April – Denis Tuohy, television presenter.
- 27 April – Robin Eames, Church of Ireland Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.
- 16 December – Given Lyness, cricketer.
- 24 December – John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, Ulster Unionist Party MP and life peer.
Deaths
- 31 January – Samuel Edgar, cricketer (born 1913).
- 3 February – Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist politician and journalist (born 1871).
- 9 February - Sir Samuel Kelly, coal merchant, philanthropist and businessperson, founder of John Kelly Limited (born 1879).[3]
- 27 February – Charles Donnelly, poet, killed at the Jarama Front, Spanish Civil War (born 1914).
- 27 June – Arthur Douglas, cricketer and rugby player (born 1902).
- Herbert Hughes, musicologist, composer and critic (born 1882).
See also
References
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