1939 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

• 17 April - The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Lord Craigavon, dismisses the Dublin government's position of neutrality as cowardly.
• 4 May - The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland announces that conscription will not be extended to Northern Ireland.
• 3 September - The UK declares war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 2 - 0 Ballymena United

[edit] Births

• 1 January - Billy Reid, volunteer in Provisional Irish Republican Army, killed in gunfight with British Army (d.1971).
• 13 April - Seamus Heaney, poet, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 17 May - Eddie Magill, footballer and football manager.
• 6 July - Mary Peters, pentathlete and 1972 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 the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and former Fine Gael TD.
• 8 December - James Galway, flautist.
• 22 December - Seamus Robinson, songwriter and composer.

[edit] Deaths

• 20 September - Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer (b.1865).
• Amanda McKittrick Ros, novelist and poet (b.1860).