1942 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Monarch - George VI

  Events

• 1 January - Clogher Valley Railway ceases operations and closes.
• 26 January - First United States troops for the European Theatre of World War II arrive in the United Kingdom at Belfast.

  Sport

Football

• Irish League
• Irish Cup

  Births

• 13 January - Arthur Stewart, footballer.
• 19 February - Phil Coulter, musician and music producer.
• 12 March - Christina Reid, playwright.
• 1 May - Eric Welsh, footballer.
• 8 May - Terry Neill, footballer and football manager.
• 2 June - Ken Robinson, Ulster Unionist Party MLA.
• 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.
• 9 September - Kieran McCarthy, Alliance Party MLA.
• 14 September - Bernard MacLaverty, fiction writer.
• 16 November - Geoffrey Squires, poet.
• 3 December - Mike Gibson, rugby union international.

  Deaths

• 19 May - Sir Joseph Larmor, physicist.