1942 in Northern Ireland
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Decades: 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s Centuries: 20th • 21st See also: 1942 in the United Kingdom 1942 in Ireland Other events of 1942

Events

• 1 January - Clogher Valley Railway ceases operations and closes.¹

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 3 - 1 Glentoran

Births

• 19 February - Phil Coulter, musician and music producer.
• 1 May - Eric Welsh, footballer.
• 8 May - Terry Neill, footballer and football manager.
• 10 June - Gordon Burns, journalist and television presenter.
• 16 August - Frank McManus, solicitor and former Unity MP.
• 3 September - Paddy Kennedy, Republican Labour Party Councillor and MP (d.1999).
• 9 September - Kieran McCarthy, Alliance Party MLA.
• 14 September - Bernard MacLaverty, author.
• 3 December - Mike Gibson (rugby player).
• Ken Robinson, Ulster Unionist Party MLA.
• Geoffrey Squires, poet.

Deaths

References

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