1947 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1947 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

 * Governor - 	Earl Granville
 * Prime Minister - Basil Brooke

Events

 * 22 April – British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Centaur (R06) (laid down 1944) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
 * 11 August – The Enterprise express train service commences from Belfast to Dublin.
 * The "bad winter" seen snow reach heights of 30 feet, lasting until May-June from the winter period.

Football

 * Irish League
 * Winners: Belfast Celtic


 * Irish Cup
 * Winners: Belfast Celtic 1 – 0 Glentoran

GAA

 * Cavan defeat Antrim 3-04 to 1–06 to win the Ulster Senior Football Championship.
 * Cavan subsequently defeat Kerry 2–11 to 2–07 in New York City to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Golf

 * Fred Daly wins The Open Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake.
 * Fred Daly plays in the Ryder Cup.

Swimming

 * 27–28 July – English endurance swimmer Tom Blower becomes the first person to swim the North Channel, from Donaghadee in County Down to Portpatrick in Scotland.

Births

 * 23 February – Ken Goodall, international rugby player (died 2006).
 * 5 March – Clodagh Rodgers, singer.
 * 24 March – John Dallat, Social Democratic and Labour Party politician.
 * 17 April – Linda Martin, singer.
 * 23 April – Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Member of UK Parliament.
 * 8 May – Dr John Reid, 13th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Home Secretary.
 * 18 May – Eileen Pollock, actress.
 * 19 May – Paul Brady, singer-songwriter.
 * 12 August – Seamus Close, former Alliance Party MLA.
 * 3 September – Eric Bell, guitarist.
 * 26 October – Sir Reg Empey, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
 * 5 December – Seán Quinn, businessman.

Full date unknown

 * Paul Haller, Soto Zen Buddhist teacher and Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center.
 * Joe McCann, Official Irish Republican Army volunteer killed by British soldiers (died 1972).
 * Eugene McMenamin, SDLP MLA
 * Frank Ormsby, poet
 * Eric Wrixon, musician

Deaths

 * 2 January – Tom Ross, cricketer (born 1872)
 * 4 January – Forrest Reid, novelist and literary critic (born 1875)
 * 25 April – Richard Rowley, poet and writer (born 1877).