← 1935 1934 1933 1936 in Northern Ireland → 1937 1938 1939
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	1936 in the United Kingdom 1936 in Ireland Other events of 1936 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1936 in Northern Ireland.

• Governor - The Duke of Abercorn
• Prime Minister - James Craig

• Public Order Act is introduced, giving the Chief Constable power to impose conditions on parades or public processions if it is believed that they would lead to public disorder.^[1]
• The British Air Ministry forms a new aircraft factory in Belfast, creating a new company owned 50% each by Harland and Wolff and Short Brothers, Short & Harland Ltd.

• Belfast School of Music opens its new premises.
• Construction begins on the BBC's Broadcasting House, Belfast.^[2]
• 1 November – Louis MacNeice's translation of The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is premiered in London.^[3]

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 2 - 0 Derry City

• 20 February – Roy Beggs, Ulster Unionist Party MP.
• 7 March – Freddie Gilroy, boxer.
• 13 March – Stanley Hewitt, cricketer (died 2001).
• 5 April – John Kelly, Sinn Féin Councillor and MLA (died 2007).
• 24 April – Robert McCartney, leader of UK Unionist Party, MLA and a QC.
• 10 June – Brendan Duddy, businessman and intermediary in the Northern Ireland peace process (died 2017).
• 1 August – Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, British life peer, businessman and multi-millionaire.
• 17 August – Seamus Mallon, Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and first Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (died 2020).
• 24 September – John Magee SPS, Bishop of Cloyne (1987- ), private secretary to Pope John Paul II.
• 5 October – Brian Hannon, Bishop of Clogher (Church of Ireland) (1986-2001).
• 22 December – James Burke, science historian, author and television presenter-producer.

• 30 November – Jimmy Elwood, footballer (born 1901).

• 1936 in Scotland
• 1936 in Wales