Events during the year 1939 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Football
:Winners: Belfast Celtic
:Winners: Linfield 2 â 0 Ballymena United
Births
- 1 January â Billy Reid, volunteer in Provisional Irish Republican Army (killed in gunfight with British Army 1971)
- 13 April â Seamus Heaney, poet, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 2013)
- 17 May â Eddie Magill, footballer and football manager
- 6 July â Mary Peters, pentathlete and 1972 Summer Olympics gold medal winner
- 27 July â Michael Longley, poet (died 2025)
- 9 August â Vincent Hanna, television journalist (died 1997)
- 16 August â Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
- 11 October â Austin Currie, founder-member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), Fine Gael TD (died 2021)
- 8 December â James Galway, flautist
- Undated â ÃÂamonn O'Doherty, sculptor (died 2011)
Deaths
See also
References