1942 in Northern Ireland

Centuries:	; ; 20th; 21st; ;
Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;
See also:	1942 in the United Kingdom; 1942 in Ireland; Other events of 1942; List of years in Northern Ireland;

Events during the year 1942 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

1 January – Clogher Valley Railway ceases operations and closes.^[1]
26 January – First United States troops for the European Theatre of World War II arrive in the United Kingdom at Belfast.^[2]

Winners: Belfast Celtic

Winners: Linfield 3 - 1 Glentoran

13 January – Arthur Stewart, footballer (died 2018).
19 February – Phil Coulter, musician and music producer.
12 March – Christina Reid, playwright (died 2015).
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 (died 1999).
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.

^ Ferris, Tom (1993). The Irish Narrow Gauge (Volume 2, The Ulster Lines). Hinckley: Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-017-6.
^ Shaw, Antony (2005). World War II Day By Day. Staplehurst: Spellmount. ISBN 1-86227-304-9.