1938 in Northern Ireland

Events

*24 May - The new Anti-Partition Party takes eight seats in a unionist-controlled Derry Corporation.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Belfast Celtic

*Irish Cup::Winners: Belfast Celtic 2 - 0 Bangor

Births

*20 January - Derek Dougan, footballer (d.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.
*3 April - Raymond Hunter, cricketer.
*7 May - John Caldwell, boxer.
*26 May - May Blood, Baroness Blood, community activist.
*1 June - Desmond Boyd, community activist.

*25 July - Ken Kirkpatrick, cricketer.
*28 August - Dick Creith, motorcycle road racer.

Deaths

*12 December - James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State (b.1869).