1938 in Northern Ireland

← 1937 1936 1935 1938 in Northern Ireland → 1939 1940 1941
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	1938 in the United Kingdom 1938 in Ireland Other events of 1938 List of years in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Monarch - George VI

Events

• 16 March - Belfast Harbour Airport at Sydenham is opened, with the inaugural commercial flight to Glasgow.^[1]
• 17 March - British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Belfast (C35) 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

• 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.
• 3 April - Raymond Hunter, cricketer.
• 7 May - John Caldwell, boxer.
• 26 May - May Blood, Baroness Blood, community activist.
• 1 June - Desmond Boyd, community activist.
• 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).

References

1. "Airport History". George Best Belfast City Airport. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
2. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.