1933 in Northern Ireland

Updated on Nov 12, 2024

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Centuries: 20th21st
Decades: 1920s1930s1940s1950s

Incumbents

Governor - The Duke of Abercorn

Prime Minister - James Craig

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

Winners: Belfast Celtic

Irish Cup

Winners: Glentoran 3 - 1 Distillery

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.

14 February – James Simmons, poet, literary critic and songwriter (died 2001).

7 March – Jackie Blanchflower, footballer (died 1998).

14 April – Paddy Hopkirk, rally driver (died 2022).

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).

Paddy Wilson, SDLP politician (murdered 1973).

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

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