1938 in Northern Ireland

Events

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

Arts and literature

Sport

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).