1942 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Governor - The Duke of Abercorn
• Prime Minister - J. M. Andrews

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.