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1937 in Northern Ireland

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Events during the year 1937 in Northern Ireland.

Contents


Incumbents

Governor - The Duke of Abercorn

Prime Minister - James Craig

Events

28 February – Population census in Northern Ireland.

28 July – Assassination attempt on King George VI in Belfast by the Irish Republican Army.

Arts and literature

Louis MacNeice writes the poem Carrickfergus.

Sport

Football

    Irish League

        Winners: Belfast Celtic

    Irish Cup

        Winners: Belfast Celtic 3 - 0 Linfield

Births

18 January – John Hume, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, MP, MEP and Nobel Peace Prize winner (died 2020).

10 February – Roy Megarry, businessman and publisher in Canada.

2 April – Denis Tuohy, television presenter.

27 April – Robin Eames, Church of Ireland Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.

16 December – Given Lyness, cricketer.

24 December – John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, Ulster Unionist Party MP and life peer.

Deaths

31 January – Samuel Edgar, cricketer (born 1913).

3 February – Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist politician and journalist (born 1871).

27 February – Charles Donnelly, poet, killed at the Jarama Front, Spanish Civil War (born 1914).

27 June – Arthur Douglas, cricketer and rugby player (born 1902).

Herbert Hughes, musicologist, composer and critic (born 1882).

References

1937 in Northern Ireland Wikipedia


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