1942 in Northern Ireland

Centuries:	20th; 21st;
Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;
See also:	1942 in the United Kingdom; 1942 in Ireland; Other events of 1942; List of years in Northern Ireland;

Events during the year 1942 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

1 January - Clogher Valley Railway ceases operations and closes.[1]
26 January - First United States troops for the European Theatre of World War II arrive in the United Kingdom at Belfast.[2]

Winners: Belfast Celtic

Winners: Linfield 3 - 1 Glentoran

13 January - Arthur Stewart, footballer (died 2018).
19 February - Phil Coulter, musician and music producer.
12 March - Christina Reid, playwright (died 2015).
1 May - Eric Welsh, footballer.
8 May - Terry Neill, footballer and football manager.
2 June - Ken Robinson, Ulster Unionist Party MLA.
10 June - Gordon Burns, journalist and television presenter.
16 August - Frank McManus, solicitor and former Unity MP.
3 September - Paddy Kennedy, Republican Labour Party Councillor and MP (died 1999).
9 September - Kieran McCarthy, Alliance Party MLA.
14 September - Bernard MacLaverty, fiction writer.
16 November - Geoffrey Squires, poet.
3 December - Mike Gibson, rugby union international.

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gollark: That's a bad definition.

Ferris, Tom (1993). The Irish Narrow Gauge (Volume 2, The Ulster Lines). Hinckley: Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-017-6.
Shaw, Antony (2005). World War II Day By Day. Staplehurst: Spellmount. ISBN 1-86227-304-9.

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