1933 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Monarch - George V

  Events

• 31 January-7 April - A strike disrupts rail transport in Northern Ireland. The Castlederg and Victoria Bridge Tramway ceases operation permanently.
• 24 May - Silent Valley Reservoir is officially opened.
• 31 May - First regular civil air service from Northern Ireland, to Renfrew.
• 18 July - Craigavon Bridge in Derry is officially opened.
• 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.

  Sport

Football

• Irish League
• Irish Cup

  GAA

• 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.

  Births

• 14 February - James Simmons, poet, literary critic and songwriter.
• 7 March - Jackie Blanchflower, footballer.
• 15 May - Dick Keith, footballer.
• 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 .
• Kennedy Lindsay - Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party politician and British Ulster Dominion Party leader .
• Paddy Wilson, SDLP politician.

  Deaths

• January - Bowman Malcolm, railway engineer.