Events during the year 1937 in Northern Ireland.
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). 9 February - Sir Samuel Kelly, coal merchant, philanthropist and businessperson, founder of John Kelly Limited (born 1879). 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).
See also 1937 in Scotland 1937 in Wales
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