1939 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1939 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

7 March Ã¢ÂÂ Harland and Wolff's Belfast shipyard launched the ocean liner for Royal Mail Lines.
17 April Ã¢ÂÂ Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Lord Craigavon, dismissed the Republic of Ireland government's position of neutrality as "cowardly".
4 May Ã¢ÂÂ The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland announced that conscription would not be extended to Northern Ireland.
17 August Ã¢ÂÂ Harland and Wolff's Belfast shipyard launched the aircraft carrier for the Royal Navy.
3 September Ã¢ÂÂ The United Kingdom declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September.

18 May Ã¢ÂÂ Louis MacNeice's Autumn Journal: a poem was published.
June Ã¢ÂÂ The Northern Ireland Players performed Joseph Tomelty's Barnum is Right as their first commercial stage play.

:Winners: Linfield 2 Ã¢ÂÂ 0 Ballymena United

1 January Ã¢ÂÂ Billy Reid, volunteer in Provisional Irish Republican Army (killed in gunfight with British Army 1971)
13 April Ã¢ÂÂ Seamus Heaney, poet, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 2013)
17 May Ã¢ÂÂ Eddie Magill, footballer and football manager
6 July Ã¢ÂÂ Mary Peters, pentathlete and 1972 Summer Olympics gold medal winner
27 July Ã¢ÂÂ Michael Longley, poet (died 2025)
9 August Ã¢ÂÂ Vincent Hanna, television journalist (died 1997)
16 August Ã¢ÂÂ SeÃÂ¡n Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
11 October Ã¢ÂÂ Austin Currie, founder-member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), Fine Gael TD (died 2021)
8 December Ã¢ÂÂ James Galway, flautist
Undated Ã¢ÂÂ ÃÂamonn O'Doherty, sculptor (died 2011)

2 February Ã¢ÂÂ Amanda McKittrick Ros, novelist and poet noted for her purple prose (born 1860)
20 September Ã¢ÂÂ Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer (born 1865)