1937 in Northern Ireland

Centuries:	20th; 21st;
Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s;
See also:	1937 in the United Kingdom; 1937 in Ireland; Other events of 1937; List of years in Northern Ireland;

Events during the year 1937 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

28 February – Population census in Northern Ireland.^[1]
28 July – Assassination attempt on King George VI in Belfast by the Irish Republican Army.^[2]

Winners: Belfast Celtic

Winners: Belfast Celtic 3 - 0 Linfield

18 January – John Hume, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, MP, MEP and Nobel Peace Prize winner (died 2020).
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.

31 January – Samuel Edgar, cricketer (born 1913).
3 February – Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist politician and journalist (born 1871).
9 February - Sir Samuel Kelly, coal merchant, philanthropist and businessperson, founder of John Kelly Limited (born 1879).^[3]
27 February – Charles Donnelly, poet, killed at the Jarama Front, Spanish Civil War (born 1914).
27 June – Arthur Douglas, cricketer and rugby player (born 1902).
Herbert Hughes, musicologist, composer and critic (born 1882).

↑ Government of Northern Ireland (1937). Census of Population of Northern Ireland 1937: Preliminary Report. Belfast: H.M.S.O.
↑ Chen, C. Peter. "George VI". World War II Database. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
↑ "Kelly's Coal Yard | Ulster Folk Museum". www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org. Retrieved 9 January 2025.