1937 in Northern Ireland

← 1936 1935 1934 1937 in Northern Ireland → 1938 1939 1940
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

• Governor - The Duke of Abercorn
• Prime Minister - James Craig

Events

• 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

• 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). ^[3]
• 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

References

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.
3. "Kelly's Coal Yard | Ulster Folk Museum". www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org. Retrieved 9 January 2025.