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Events during the year 1936 in Northern Ireland.
- Public Order Act is introduced, giving the Chief Constable power to impose conditions on parades or public processions if it is believed that they would lead to public disorder.[1]
- The British Air Ministry forms a new aircraft factory in Belfast, creating a new company owned 50% each by Harland and Wolff and Short Brothers, Short & Harland Ltd.
Arts and literature
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- Winners: Belfast Celtic
- Winners: Linfield 2 - 0 Derry City
- 20 February – Roy Beggs, Ulster Unionist Party MP.
- 7 March – Freddie Gilroy, boxer.
- 13 March – Stanley Hewitt, cricketer (died 2001).
- 5 April – John Kelly, Sinn Féin Councillor and MLA (died 2007).
- 24 April – Robert McCartney, leader of UK Unionist Party, MLA and a QC.
- 10 June – Brendan Duddy, businessman and intermediary in the Northern Ireland peace process (died 2017).
- 1 August – Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, British life peer, businessman and multi-millionaire.
- 17 August – Seamus Mallon, Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and first Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (died 2020).
- 24 September – John Magee SPS, Bishop of Cloyne (1987- ), private secretary to Pope John Paul II.
- 5 October – Brian Hannon, Bishop of Clogher (Church of Ireland) (1986-2001).
- 22 December – James Burke, science historian, author and television presenter-producer.