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

Incumbents

• Monarch - George VI

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, former leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, MP, MEP and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
• 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).
• 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).

References