1938 in Northern Ireland explained

Events during the year 1938 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

• • Governor - The Duke of Abercorn Prime Minister - James Craig

Events

• 16 March – Belfast Harbour Airport at Sydenham is opened, with the inaugural commercial flight to Glasgow.^[1]
• 17 March – British Royal Navy cruiser is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
• 24 May – The new Anti-Partition Party takes eight seats in a Unionist-controlled Londonderry Corporation.

Arts and literature

• April – Louis MacNeice publishes I Crossed the Minch and his poetry The Earth Compels.^[2]

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Belfast Celtic 2 - 0 Bangor

Births

• 20 January – Derek Dougan, footballer (died 2007).
• 21 January – Ken Maginnis, Baron Maginnis of Drumglass, Ulster Unionist Party politician.
• 16 February – Sammy Chapman, footballer and football manager.
• 17 March – Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (died 2018 in Scotland.
• 3 April – Raymond Hunter, cricketer and rugby player (died 2020).
• 7 May – John Caldwell, boxer.
• 26 May – May Blood, Baroness Blood, community activist.
• 1 June – Desmond Boyd, community activist.
• 19 June – John Sheil, lawyer and judge.
• 25 July – Ken Kirkpatrick, cricketer.
• 28 August – Dick Creith, motorcycle road racer.

Deaths

• 12 December – James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State (born 1869).

See also

• 1938 in Scotland
• 1938 in Wales

Notes and References

1. Web site: Airport History . George Best Belfast City Airport . 2012-04-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111012191943/http://belfastcityairport.com/About-Us/Airport-Development-and-Planning/facts-and-figures.aspx . 12 October 2011 .
2. Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6. registration.