Events during the year 1938 in Northern Ireland.
Contents
Incumbents
Governor - The Duke of Abercorn
Prime Minister - James Craig
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
April – Louis MacNeice publishes I Crossed the Minch and his poetry The Earth Compels.
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 (died 2018 in Scotland.
3 April – Raymond Hunter, cricketer and rugby player (died 2020).
7 May – John Caldwell, boxer.
26 May – May Blood, Baroness Blood, community activist.
1 June – Desmond Boyd, community activist.
19 June – John Sheil, lawyer and judge.
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).