1937 in Northern Ireland

List of events

* 1936
* 1935
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* 1938
* 1939
* 1940
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Centuries:|

*   *   * 20th
* 21st

Decades:|

*   * 1920s
* 1930s
* 1940s
* 1950s

See also:|

* 1937 in the United Kingdom
* 1937 in Ireland
* Other events of 1937
* List of years in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1937 in Northern Ireland.

## Incumbents

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* Governor \-  The Duke of Abercorn
* Prime Minister \- James Craig

## Events

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* 28 February – Population census in Northern Ireland.[1]
* 28 July – Assassination attempt on King George VI in Belfast by the Irish Republican Army.[2]

## Arts and literature

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* Louis MacNeice writes the poem Carrickfergus.

## Sport

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### Football

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* Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

* Irish Cup

Winners: Belfast Celtic 3 - 0 Linfield

## Births

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* 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

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* 31 January – Samuel Edgar, cricketer (born 1913).
* 3 February – Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist politician and journalist (born 1871).
* 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

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* 1937 in Scotland
* 1937 in Wales

## References

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1. ^ Government of Northern Ireland (1937). Census of Population of Northern Ireland 1937: Preliminary Report. Belfast: H.M.S.O.
2. ^ Chen, C. Peter. "George VI". World War II Database. Retrieved 9 December 2014.