1941 in Northern Ireland

Centuries:	20th ; 21st ;
Decades:	1920s ; 1930s ; 1940s ; 1950s ; 1960s ;
See also:	1941 in the United Kingdom ; 1941 in Ireland ; Other events of 1941 ; List of years in Northern Ireland ;

Last updated October 13, 2023

Incumbents

Events

21 February – First flight by a Royal Air Force flying boat through the "Donegal Corridor", neutral Republic of Ireland airspace between its base in Northern Ireland and the Atlantic Ocean, a concession secretly agreed by Éamon de Valera.^[1]
15 April – The Belfast blitz: 1,000 people are killed in bombing raids on Belfast. 71 firemen with 13 fire tenders from Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, and Dún Laoghaire cross the Irish border to assist their Belfast colleagues.
May - Broadcasting House, Belfast opens.
5 May – Belfast suffers its third bombing raid during World War II. The Dublin government authorises its emergency services to assist again.
26 May – A special sitting of Dáil Éireann unanimously condemns the introduction of conscription in Northern Ireland.
27 May – Speaking in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Winston Churchill rules out the introduction of conscription in the North.

Arts and literature

Robert Greacen's poetry The Bird is published.
Louis MacNeice's poetry Plant and Phantom is published.^[2]
W. R. Rodgers's Awake! And Other Poems is published.^[2]

Sport

Football

Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

Irish Cup

Winners: Belfast Celtic 1 - 0 Linfield

Births

13 May – Miles Kington, comic journalist (died 2008).
30 May – George Robinson, Democratic Unionist Party MLA.
8 June – Robert Bradford, footballer and politician (died 1981).
10 June – John MaGowan, darts player.
24 June – Gerard Clifford, Auxiliary Bishop of Armagh (1991 - ).
6 July – David Crystal, linguist.
15 July – Leslie Cree, Ulster Unionist Party MLA.
23 August – Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, philosopher and academic.
19 September – Martin Harvey, footballer (died 2019).
2 October – Michael Campbell, Roman Catholic Bishop of Lancaster.
20 October – Stewart Parker, poet and playwright (died 1988).
28 October – John Hallam, actor (died 2006).
7 November – Ian Cochrane, novelist (died 2004).
23 November – Derek Mahon, poet (died 2020).
15 December – Jim Wilson, Ulster Unionist Party MLA.

Deaths

10 January – John Lavery, artist (born 1856).
13 March – Finlay Jackson, cricketer and rugby player (born 1901).
19 February – Hamilton Harty, conductor and composer (born 1879).

Related Research Articles

Ulster is one of the four traditional or historic Irish provinces. It is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland ; the remaining three are in the Republic of Ireland.

The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement. Following the partition of Ireland, it was the governing party of Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. It was supported by most unionist voters throughout the conflict known as the Troubles, during which time it was often referred to as the Official Unionist Party (OUP).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Terence O'Neill</span> Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1963 to 1969

Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, PC (NI), was the fourth prime minister of Northern Ireland and leader (1963–1969) of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). A moderate unionist, who sought to reconcile the sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland society, he was a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for the Bannside constituency from 1946 until his resignation in January 1970; his successor in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland was Ian Paisley, while control of the UUP also passed to more hard-line elements.

Events from the year 1941 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1935 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1920 in Ireland.

Events in the year 1912 in Ireland.

Events in 1909 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1886 in Ireland.

Events during the year 1990 in Northern Ireland.

Events during the year 1976 in Northern Ireland.

Events during the year 1971 in Northern Ireland.

Events during the year 1965 in Northern Ireland.

Events during the year 1956 in Northern Ireland.

Events during the year 1951 in Northern Ireland.

Events during the year 1949 in Northern Ireland.

Events during the year 1948 in Northern Ireland.

Events during the year 1947 in Northern Ireland.

This is a list of events that happened in Northern Ireland in 1944.

Events during the year 1940 in Northern Ireland.

References

↑ Guidera, Anita (19 April 2007). "Plaques mark secret wartime air corridor in Donegal". Irish Independent . Retrieved 23 August 2012.
1 2 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] Guidera, Anita (19 April 2007). "Plaques mark secret wartime air corridor in Donegal". Irish Independent . Retrieved 23 August 2012.

[COCEL-2] 1 2 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

[1]

[2]