1936 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1936 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

 * Governor - 	 The Duke of Abercorn
 * Prime Minister - James Craig

Events

 * Public Order Act is introduced, giving the Chief Constable power to impose conditions on parades or public processions if it is believed that they would lead to public disorder.
 * The British Air Ministry forms a new aircraft factory in Belfast, creating a new company owned 50% each by Harland and Wolff and Short Brothers, Short & Harland Ltd.

Arts and literature

 * Belfast School of Music opens its new premises.
 * Construction begins on the BBC's Broadcasting House, Belfast.
 * 1 November – Louis MacNeice's translation of The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is premiered in London.

Football

 * Irish League
 * Winners: Belfast Celtic


 * Irish Cup
 * Winners: Linfield 2 - 0 Derry City

Births

 * 20 February – Roy Beggs, Ulster Unionist Party MP.
 * 7 March – Freddie Gilroy, boxer.
 * 13 March – Stanley Hewitt, cricketer (died 2001).
 * 5 April – John Kelly, Sinn Féin Councillor and MLA (died 2007).
 * 24 April – Robert McCartney, leader of UK Unionist Party, MLA and a QC.
 * 10 June – Brendan Duddy, businessman and intermediary in the Northern Ireland peace process (died 2017).
 * 1 August – Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, British life peer, businessman and multi-millionaire.
 * 17 August – Seamus Mallon, Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and first Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (died 2020).
 * 24 September – John Magee SPS, Bishop of Cloyne (1987- ), private secretary to Pope John Paul II.
 * 5 October – Brian Hannon, Bishop of Clogher (Church of Ireland) (1986-2001).
 * 22 December – James Burke, science historian, author and television presenter-producer.

Deaths

 * 30 November – Jimmy Elwood, footballer (born 1901).