1938 in Northern Ireland

Centuries:	20th; 21st;
Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s;
See also:	1938 in the United Kingdom; 1938 in Ireland; Other events of 1938; List of years in Northern Ireland;

Events during the year 1938 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

16 March - Belfast Harbour Airport at Sydenham is opened, with the inaugural commercial flight to Glasgow.[1]
17 March - British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Belfast (C35) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
24 May - The new Anti-Partition Party takes eight seats in a Unionist-controlled Londonderry Corporation.

Louis MacNeice publishes I Crossed the Minch and his poetry The Earth Compels.[2]

Winners: Belfast Celtic

Winners: Belfast Celtic 2 - 0 Bangor

20 January - Derek Dougan, footballer (died 2007).
21 January - Ken Maginnis, Baron Maginnis of Drumglass, Ulster Unionist Party politician.
16 February - Sammy Chapman, footballer and football manager.
17 March - Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (died 2018 in Scotland.
3 April - Raymond Hunter, cricketer.
7 May - John Caldwell, boxer.
26 May - May Blood, Baroness Blood, community activist.
1 June - Desmond Boyd, community activist.
19 June - John Sheil, lawyer and judge.
25 July - Ken Kirkpatrick, cricketer.
28 August - Dick Creith, motorcycle road racer.

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