1936 in Northern Ireland

← 1935 1934 1933 1936 in Northern Ireland → 1937 1938 1939
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	1936 in the United Kingdom 1936 in Ireland Other events of 1936 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events

• Public Order Act is introduced, giving the Chief Constable power to impose conditions on parades or public processions if it is believed that they would lead to public disorder.^[1]
• The Brtitish Air Ministry forms a new aircraft factory in Belfast, creating a new company owned 50% each by Harland and Wolff and Short Brothers, Short & Harland Ltd.

Arts and literature

• Belfast School of Music opens its new premises.
• Louis MacNeice publishes his translation of The Agamemnon of Aeschylus.^[2]

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 2 - 0 Derry City

Births

• 20 February - Roy Beggs, former Ulster Unionist Party MP.
• 7 March - Freddie Gilroy, boxer.
• 13 March - Stanley Hewitt, cricketer (died 2001).
• 5 April - John Kelly, Sinn Féin Councillor and MLA (died 2007).
• 24 April - Robert McCartney, leader of UK Unionist Party, former MLA and a QC.
• 17 August - Seamus Mallon, former Deputy-Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and first Deputy-First Minister of Northern Ireland.
• 24 September - John Magee SPS, Bishop of Cloyne (1987 - ), former private secretary to Pope John Paul II.
• 5 October - Brian Hannon, Bishop of Clogher from 1986 to 2001.
• 22 December - James Burke, science historian, author and television producer.
• Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, British life peer, businessman and multi-millionaire.

Deaths

• 30 November - Jimmy Elwood, footballer (born 1901).

References

1. "Parades and Marches - Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
2. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.