1937 in Northern Ireland
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[edit] Events
- 28 July- Assassination attempt on King George VI in Belfast by the Irish Republican Army
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
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- Winners: Belfast Celtic
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- Winners: Belfast Celtic 3 - 0 Linfield
[edit] Births
- 18 January - John Hume, former leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, MP, MEP and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
- 10 February - Roy Megarry, businessman and publisher in Canada.
- 2 April - Denis Tuohy, television presenter.
- 27 April - Robin Eames, Church of Ireland Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.
- 16 December - Given Lyness, cricketer.
- 24 December - John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, Ulster Unionist Party MP and life peer.
[edit] Deaths
- 31 January - Samuel Edgar, cricketer (b.1913).
- 3 February - Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist politician and journalist (b.1871).
- 27 February - Charles Donnelly, poet, killed at the Jarama Front, Spanish Civil War (b.1914).
- 27 June - Arthur Douglas, cricketer and rugby player (b.1902).
- Herbert Hughes, musicologist, composer and critic (b.1882).
