1938 in Northern Ireland

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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 and rugby player (died 2020).
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.

^ "Airport History". George Best Belfast City Airport. Archived from the original on 12 October 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.