1937 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1937 in Northern Ireland.
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Incumbents
Events
- 28 February â Population census in Northern Ireland.[1]
- 28 July â 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 â John Hume, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, MP, MEP and Nobel Peace Prize winner (died 2020).
- 10 February â Roy Megarry, businessman and publisher in Canada.
- 2 April â Denis Tuohy, television presenter.
- 27 April â Robin Eames, Church of Ireland Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.
- 16 December â Given Lyness, cricketer.
- 24 December â John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, Ulster Unionist Party MP and life peer.
Deaths
- 31 January â Samuel Edgar, cricketer (born 1913).
- 3 February â 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 â Charles Donnelly, poet, killed at the Jarama Front, Spanish Civil War (born 1914).
- 27 June â Arthur Douglas, cricketer and rugby player (born 1902).
- Herbert Hughes, musicologist, composer and critic (born 1882).