- 1939 in Northern Ireland
Events
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17 April - ThePrime Minister of Northern Ireland ,Lord Craigavon , dismisses the Dublin government's position of neutrality as cowardly.
*4 May - ThePrime Minister of Northern Ireland announces that conscription will not be extended toNorthern Ireland .
*3 September - The UK declares war onGermany following the German invasion of Poland on1 September .Arts and literature
port
Football
*Irish League::Winners:
Belfast Celtic *
Irish Cup ::Winners: Linfield 2 - 0 Ballymena UnitedBirths
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1 January - Billy Reid, volunteer inProvisional Irish Republican Army , killed in gunfight with British Army (d.1971).
*13 April -Seamus Heaney , poet, writer and winner of theNobel Prize for Literature .
*17 May -Eddie Magill , footballer and football manager.
*6 July - Mary Peters, pentathlete and1972 Summer Olympics gold medal winner.
*27 July -Michael Longley , poet.
*9 August -Vincent Hanna ,television journalist (d.1997).
*16 August -Seán Brady , Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
*11 October -Austin Currie , founder-member of theSocial Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and formerFine Gael TD.
*8 December -James Galway , flautist.
*22 December - Seamus Robinson, songwriter and composer.Deaths
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20 September -Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin , astronomer (b.1865).
*Amanda McKittrick Ros , novelist and poet (b.1860).
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