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1933 in Northern Ireland

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Centuries:
  
20th 21st

Decades:
  
1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Incumbents

  • Monarch - George V
  • Events

  • 31 January–7 April - A strike disrupts rail transport in Northern Ireland. The Castlederg and Victoria Bridge Tramway ceases operation permanently.
  • 24 May - Silent Valley Reservoir (for Belfast water supply) is officially opened.
  • 31 May - First regular civil air service from Northern Ireland, to Renfrew.
  • 18 July - Craigavon Bridge in Derry is officially opened.
  • Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast, opened by the Governor of Northern Ireland, James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn.
  • Part of Bellevue Pleasure Gardens is redeveloped as Belfast Zoo.
  • Harry Ferguson assembles a prototype tractor in Belfast.
  • Football

  • Irish League
  • Irish Cup
  • GAA

  • Cavan defeat Tyrone 6-13 to 1-02 to win the Ulster Senior Football Championship.
  • Cavan subsequently defeat Galway 2-05 to 1-04 to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, becoming the first county from Ulster to do so.
  • Births

  • 14 February - James Simmons, poet, literary critic and songwriter (died 2001).
  • 7 March - Jackie Blanchflower, footballer (died 1998).
  • 15 May - Dick Keith, footballer (died 1967).
  • 13 June - Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, 8th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
  • 28 June - Gusty Spence, Ulster Volunteer Force and Progressive Unionist Party figure.
  • 5 July - Maurice Leitch, novelist and radio dramatist.
  • 5 December - Edward Daly, former Catholic Bishop of Derry.
  • Grant "Rusty" Ferguson, Sr., actor in The Blue Lagoon (1949 film) (born in Cookstown).
  • Kennedy Lindsay - Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party politician and British Ulster Dominion Party leader (died 1997) (born in Canada).
  • Paddy Wilson, SDLP politician (murdered 1973).
  • Deaths

  • January - Bowman Malcolm, railway engineer (born 1854).
  • References

    1933 in Northern Ireland Wikipedia