1947 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George VI

  Events

• 22 April – British Royal Navy aircraft carrier is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
• 11 August – The Enterprise express train service commences from Belfast to Dublin.

  Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• Irish League
• Irish Cup

  GAA

• Cavan defeat Antrim 3-04 to 1–06 to win the Ulster Senior Football Championship.
• Cavan subsequently defeat Kerry 2–11 to 2–07 in New York City to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

  Golf

• Fred Daly wins The Open Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake.
• Fred Daly plays in the Ryder Cup.

  Swimming

• 27–28 July – English endurance swimmer Tom Blower becomes the first person to swim the North Channel, from Donaghadee in County Down to Portpatrick in Scotland.

  Births

• 23 February – Ken Goodall, international rugby player.
• 5 March – Clodagh Rodgers, singer.
• 24 March – John Dallat, Social Democratic and Labour Party politician.
• 17 April – Linda Martin, singer.
• 23 April – Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Member of UK Parliament.
• 8 May – Dr John Reid, 13th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Home Secretary.
• 18 May – Eileen Pollock, actress.
• 19 May – Paul Brady, singer-songwriter.
• 12 August – Seamus Close, former Alliance Party MLA.
• 3 September – Eric Bell, guitarist.
• 26 October – Sir Reg Empey, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• 5 December – Seán Quinn, businessman.

  Full date unknown

• Paul Haller, Soto Zen Buddhist teacher and Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center.
• Joe McCann, Official Irish Republican Army volunteer killed by British soldiers.
• Eugene McMenamin, SDLP MLA
• Frank Ormsby, poet
• Eric Wrixon, musician

  Deaths

• 2 January – Tom Ross, cricketer
• 4 January – Forrest Reid, novelist and literary critic
• 25 April – Richard Rowley, poet and writer.