1933 in Northern Ireland

Centuries:	20th; 21st;
Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s;
See also:	1933 in the United Kingdom; 1933 in Ireland; Other events of 1933; List of years in Northern Ireland;

Events during the year 1933 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

31 January–7 April - A strike disrupts rail transport in Northern Ireland. The Castlederg and Victoria Bridge Tramway ceases operation permanently.[1]
24 May – Silent Valley Reservoir (for Belfast water supply) is officially opened.[2]
31 May – First regular civil air service from Northern Ireland, to Renfrew.[3]
18 July – Craigavon Bridge in Derry is officially opened.[4]
Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast, opened by the Governor of Northern Ireland, James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn.
Part of Bellevue Pleasure Gardens is redeveloped as Belfast Zoo.
Harry Ferguson assembles a prototype tractor in Belfast.[5]

Winners: Belfast Celtic

Winners: Glentoran 3 - 1 Distillery

Cavan defeat Tyrone 6–13 to 1–02 to win the Ulster Senior Football Championship.
Cavan subsequently defeat Galway 2–05 to 1–04 to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, becoming the first county from Ulster to do so.

14 February – James Simmons, poet, literary critic and songwriter (died 2001).
7 March – Jackie Blanchflower, footballer (died 1998).
15 May – Dick Keith, footballer (died 1967).
13 June – Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, 8th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
28 June – Gusty Spence, Ulster Volunteer Force and Progressive Unionist Party figure.
5 July – Maurice Leitch, novelist and radio dramatist.
5 December – Edward Daly, former Catholic Bishop of Derry.
Grant "Rusty" Ferguson, Sr., actor in The Blue Lagoon (1949 film) (born in Cookstown).
Kennedy Lindsay - Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party politician and British Ulster Dominion Party leader (died 1997) (born in Canada).
Paddy Wilson, SDLP politician (murdered 1973).

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"Airport History". George Best Belfast City Airport. Archived from the original on 12 October 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
"The Lord Mayor of London in Ulster". The Times (46498). London. 17 July 1933. p. 15.
"Harry Ferguson: The Man and The Machine". Yesterday's Tractor Co. Retrieved 30 June 2012.

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