1938 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1938 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 16 March – Belfast Harbour Airport at Sydenham is opened, with the inaugural commercial flight to Glasgow.
 * 17 March – British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Belfast (C35) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
 * 24 May – The new Anti-Partition Party takes eight seats in a Unionist-controlled Londonderry Corporation.

Arts and literature

 * April – Louis MacNeice publishes I Crossed the Minch and his poetry The Earth Compels.

Football

 * Irish League
 * Winners: Belfast Celtic


 * Irish Cup
 * Winners: Belfast Celtic 2 - 0 Bangor

Births

 * 20 January – Derek Dougan, footballer (died 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 (died 2018 in Scotland.
 * 3 April – Raymond Hunter, cricketer and rugby player (died 2020).
 * 7 May – John Caldwell, boxer.
 * 26 May – May Blood, Baroness Blood, community activist.
 * 1 June – Desmond Boyd, community activist.
 * 19 June – John Sheil, lawyer and judge.
 * 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 (born 1869).