Monarch - George VI
16 March - Belfast Harbour Airport at Sydenham is opened, with the inaugural commercial flight to Glasgow.
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.
Irish League
Irish Cup
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.
12 December - James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State (born 1869).
1938 in Northern Ireland Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
