1938 in Northern Ireland
Encyclopedia
Events
- 24 May - The new Anti-Partition Party takes eight seats in a unionist-controlled Derry Corporation.
Football
- Irish League
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- Winners: Belfast CelticBelfast CelticBelfast Celtic Football Club was a football club in Northern Ireland that was founded in 1891, and was one of the most successful teams in Ireland until forced to withdraw from the Irish League in 1949.-History:...
- Winners: Belfast Celtic
- Irish CupIrish CupFor the equivalent tournament in the Republic of Ireland, see FAI Cup.The Irish Cup is the national cup knock-out competition in Northern Irish football. Inaugurated in 1881, it is the fourth oldest national cup competition in the world...
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- Winners: Belfast CelticBelfast CelticBelfast Celtic Football Club was a football club in Northern Ireland that was founded in 1891, and was one of the most successful teams in Ireland until forced to withdraw from the Irish League in 1949.-History:...
2 - 0 BangorBangor F.C.Bangor Football Club is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in IFA Championship 1. The club, founded in 1918, hails from Bangor and plays its home matches at Clandeboye Park. Club colours are gold and royal blue...
- Winners: Belfast Celtic
Births
- 20 January - Derek DouganDerek DouganAlexander Derek Dougan was a former Northern Ireland international footballer who played for Wolverhampton Wanderers....
, footballer (d.20072007 in Northern Ireland-Events:*22 January - report by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland states that the Special Brunch of the then Royal Ulster Constabulary had colluded with loyalist paramilitaries in a number of murders and attempted murders in Northern Belfast between 1989 and 2002...
). - 21 January - Ken Maginnis, Baron Maginnis of DrumglassKen Maginnis, Baron Maginnis of DrumglassKenneth Wiggins Maginnis, Lord Maginnis of Drumglass is a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist politician who sits in the House of Lords...
, Ulster Unionist PartyUlster Unionist PartyThe Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
politician. - 16 February - Sammy ChapmanSammy ChapmanSamuel Edward Campbell "Sammy" Chapman is a former Northern Ireland international footballer and football manager.-Career:Chapman joined Shamrock Rovers in July 1956 from Glenavon F.C. ....
, footballer and football manager. - 17 March - Keith Michael Patrick O'BrienKeith Michael Patrick O'BrienKeith Michael Patrick O'Brien is a Scottish Cardinal and the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh of the Roman Catholic Church. O'Brien is currently the only living Cardinal from Scotland....
, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh. - 3 April - Raymond HunterRaymond HunterWilliam Raymond Hunter is an Irish former cricketer and rugby union player.-Cricket:A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played 28 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1957 and 1967 including eleven first-class matches.-Playing career:Hunter made his debut for Ireland...
, cricketer. - 7 May - John CaldwellJohn Caldwell (boxer)John Caldwell was an Irish boxer who won the bronze medal in the flyweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia....
, boxer. - 26 May - May Blood, Baroness BloodMay Blood, Baroness BloodMay Blood, Baroness Blood of Blackwatertown MBE is a Labour member of the British House of Lords.Blood was born and raised in Belfast and worked in a linen mill from 1952-90 where she soon became an active member of the trade union and a shop steward. She was involved in creating the women's...
, community activist. - 1 June - Desmond Boyd, community activist.
- 25 July - Ken KirkpatrickKen KirkpatrickAlexander Kennedy "Ken" Kirkpatrick is an Irish former cricketer. A left-handed batsman and off spin bowler, he played twice for the Ireland cricket team in 1962; a first-class match against the Combined Services and against Pakistan.-References:...
, cricketer. - 28 August - Dick CreithDick CreithDick Creith was a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Bushmills. He competed in only two Grand Prix races during his career, the 1964 and 1965 500cc Ulster Grand Prix. He won the 1965 500cc Ulster Grand Prix...
, motorcycle road racer.
Deaths
- 12 December - James McNeillJames McNeillJames McNeill was an Irish politician and diplomat, who served as first High Commissioner to London and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State....
, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free StateGovernor-General of the Irish Free StateThe Governor-General was the representative of the King in the 1922–1937 Irish Free State. Until 1927 he was also the agent of the British government in the Irish state. By convention the office of Governor-General was largely ceremonial...
(b.18691869 in Ireland-Events:The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland passes the Irish Church Act 1869.-Births:*16 March - Peter Maher, boxer .*27 March - James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State ....
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