Events during the year 1927 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
Sport
Football
:26 February Northern Ireland 0 - 2 Scotland
:9 April Wales 2 - 2 Northern Ireland (in Cardiff)
:22 October Northern Ireland 2 - 0 England
:Winners: Belfast Celtic
:Winners: Ards 3 - 2 Cliftonville
Golf
Greyhound racing
Births
- 8 April â Deborah Brown, sculptor (died 2023).
- 19 May â Billy McMillen, Official Irish Republican Army officer (killed in feud with Irish National Liberation Army 1975).
- 8 June â Brendan Smyth, Catholic priest and convicted child sexual abuser (died 1997).
- 2 July â R. J. G. Savage, palaeontologist (died 1998 in England).
- 8 July â Maurice Hayes, public servant, writer and independent member of Seanad ÃÂireann (died 2017).
- July - Thomas Teevan, Unionist politician and lawyer (died 1954).
- 31 August â Thomas McCloy, cricketer (died 2014).
- 1 October â Alf McMichael, footballer (died 2006).
- 23 November â John Cole, political journalist and broadcaster (died 2013 in England).
Deaths
See also
References