1942 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1942 in Northern Ireland.
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Incumbents
Events
- 1 January – Clogher Valley Railway ceases operations and closes.[1]
- 26 January – First United States troops for the European Theatre of World War II arrive in the United Kingdom at Belfast.[2]
Sport
Football
- Winners: Belfast Celtic
Births
- 13 January – Arthur Stewart, footballer (died 2018).
- 19 February – Phil Coulter, musician and music producer.
- 12 March – Christina Reid, playwright (died 2015).
- 1 May – Eric Welsh, footballer.
- 8 May – Terry Neill, footballer and football manager.
- 2 June – Ken Robinson, Ulster Unionist Party MLA.
- 10 June – Gordon Burns, journalist and television presenter.
- 16 August – Frank McManus, solicitor and former Unity MP.
- 3 September – Paddy Kennedy, Republican Labour Party Councillor and MP (died 1999).
- 9 September – Kieran McCarthy, Alliance Party MLA.
- 14 September – Bernard MacLaverty, fiction writer.
- 16 November – Geoffrey Squires, poet.
- 3 December – Mike Gibson, rugby union international.
Deaths
- 19 May – Sir Joseph Larmor, physicist (born 1857).