1938 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1938 in Northern Ireland.
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Incumbents
Events
- 16 March â Belfast Harbour Airport at Sydenham is opened, with the inaugural commercial flight to Glasgow.[1]
- 17 March â British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Belfast (C35) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
- 24 May â The new Anti-Partition Party takes eight seats in a Unionist-controlled Londonderry Corporation.
Arts and literature
- April â Louis MacNeice publishes I Crossed the Minch and his poetry The Earth Compels.[2]
Sport
Football
- Winners: Belfast Celtic
- Winners: Belfast Celtic 2 - 0 Bangor
Births
- 20 January â Derek Dougan, footballer (died 2007).
- 21 January â Ken Maginnis, Baron Maginnis of Drumglass, Ulster Unionist Party politician.
- 16 February â Sammy Chapman, footballer and football manager.
- 17 March â Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (died 2018 in Scotland.
- 3 April â Raymond Hunter, cricketer and rugby player (died 2020).
- 7 May â John Caldwell, boxer.
- 26 May â May Blood, Baroness Blood, community activist.
- 1 June â Desmond Boyd, community activist.
- 19 June â John Sheil, lawyer and judge.
- 25 July â Ken Kirkpatrick, cricketer.
- 28 August â Dick Creith, motorcycle road racer.
Deaths
- 12 December â James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State (born 1869).
