1924 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1924 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

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

Events

• January & June – 1924 Northern Ireland local elections, following changes by the Unionist government, which has redrawn electoral districts, abolished the single transferable vote and implemented a requirement for members of local authorities to take an oath of allegiance to the UK.
• 24 March – Ballycastle Railway closes due to financial difficulties.
• 24 April – No agreement is reached at the Boundary Conference in London. The Irish Boundary Commission is now set up to examine the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.
• 6 May – James Craig refuses to nominate a Northern Ireland representative to the Boundary Commission.
• 11 August – Ballycastle Railway reopens under Northern Counties Committee ownership.
• 14 September – First BBC broadcast from Belfast (station 2BE).
• 24 October – Éamon de Valera is arrested at Newry Town Hall after defying an order preventing him from speaking in Northern Ireland.

Sport

Football

• International

:1 March Scotland 2 - 0 Northern Ireland (in Glasgow)

:15 March Northern Ireland 0 - 1 Wales

:22 October England 3 - 1 Northern Ireland (in Liverpool)

• Irish League

:Winners: Queen's Island

• Irish Cup

:Winners: Queen's Island 1 - 0 Willowfield

Births

• 12 January – Arthur Armstrong, painter (died 1996).
• 15 April – Padraic Fiacc, poet (died 2019).
• 18 April – Roy Mason, fourth Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2015).
• 26 May – Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (died 1993).
• 11 July – Charlie Tully, footballer (died 1971).
• 26 September – Max Clendinning, architect and interior designer (died 2020).
• 2 December – William Craig, former Unionist MP and founder of the Ulster Vanguard movement (died 2011).
• 14 December – Andy Thompson, Canadian politician (died 2016).
• 17 December – Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Party MP for North Belfast from 1983 to 2001 (died 2007).
• Full date unknown – Kennedy Lindsay, Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party politician and British Ulster Dominion Party leader (died 1997) (born in Canada).

Deaths

• 6 June – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman (born 1847).
• 22 October – Anne Marjorie Robinson, painter (born 1858).

See also

• 1924 in Scotland
• 1924 in Wales

References