1938 in Northern Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

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

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Belfast Celtic 2 - 0 Bangor

[edit] 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.

[edit] Deaths

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