1937 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1937 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 28 February – Population census in Northern Ireland.
 * 28 July – Assassination attempt on King George VI in Belfast by the Irish Republican Army.

Arts and literature

 * Louis MacNeice writes the poem Carrickfergus.

Football

 * Irish League
 * Winners: Belfast Celtic


 * Irish Cup
 * Winners: Belfast Celtic 3 - 0 Linfield

Births

 * 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.

Deaths

 * 31 January – Samuel Edgar, cricketer (born 1913).
 * 3 February – Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist politician and journalist (born 1871).
 * 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).