1939 in Northern Ireland

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Events during the year 1939 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

Events

7 March – Harland and Wolff's Belfast shipyard launched the ocean liner RMS Andes for Royal Mail Lines.^[1]
17 April – Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Lord Craigavon, dismissed the Republic of Ireland government's position of neutrality as "cowardly".
4 May – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland announced that conscription would not be extended to Northern Ireland.
17 August – Harland and Wolff's Belfast shipyard launched the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable for the Royal Navy.
3 September – The United Kingdom declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September.

Arts and literature

18 May – Louis MacNeice's Autumn Journal: a poem was published.^[2]
June – The Northern Ireland Players performed Joseph Tomelty's Barnum is Right as their first commercial stage play.

Sport

Football

Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 2 – 0 Ballymena United

Births

1 January – Billy Reid, volunteer in Provisional Irish Republican Army (killed in gunfight with British Army 1971)
13 April – Seamus Heaney, poet, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 2013)
17 May – Eddie Magill, footballer and football manager
6 July – Mary Peters, pentathlete and 1972 Summer Olympics gold medal winner
27 July – Michael Longley, poet
9 August – Vincent Hanna, television journalist (died 1997)
16 August – Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
11 October – Austin Currie, founder-member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), Fine Gael TD (died 2021)
8 December – James Galway, flautist
Undated – Éamonn O'Doherty, sculptor (died 2011)

Deaths

2 February – Amanda McKittrick Ros, novelist and poet noted for her purple prose (born 1860)
20 September – Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer (born 1865)

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Harland & Wolff is a British shipbuilding and fabrication company headquartered in London with sites in Belfast, Arnish, Appledore and Methil. It specialises in ship repair, shipbuilding and offshore construction. Harland & Wolff is famous for having built the majority of the ocean liners for the White Star Line, including Olympic-class trio – RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic. Outside of White Star Line, other ships that have been built include the Royal Navy's HMS Belfast; Royal Mail Line's Andes; Shaw, Savill & Albion's Southern Cross; Union-Castle's RMS Pendennis Castle; P&O's Canberra; and Hamburg-America's SS Amerika of 1905. Harland and Wolff's official history, Shipbuilders to the World, was published in 1986.

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References

↑ Nicol, Stuart (2001). MacQueen's Legacy; Ships of the Royal Mail Line. Vol. Two. Brimscombe Port and Charleston, SC: Tempus Publishing. p. 163. ISBN 0-7524-2119-0.
↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

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