1929 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1929 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 8 February – A Belfast court sentences Fianna Fáil leader Éamon de Valera to one month in jail for illegally entering County Armagh.
• 22 May – Northern Ireland general election for the Parliament of Northern Ireland, the first held following abolition of the single transferable vote and the redrawing of electoral boundaries to create single-seat territorial constituencies. The Ulster Unionist Party retains a substantial majority.
• 30 May – United Kingdom general election.
• 23 July – Construction of the first 1000 ft (300 m)-long ocean liner, RMMV Oceanic, for the White Star Line, begun by Harland and Wolff in Belfast in 1928, is cancelled.
• Six banks in Northern Ireland begin to issue banknotes in sterling.

Sport

Football

• International

:2 February Wales 2 - 2 Northern Ireland (in Wrexham)

:23 February Northern Ireland 3 - 7 Scotland

:19 October Northern Ireland 0 - 3 England

• Irish League

:Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

:Winners: Ballymena United 2 - 1 Belfast Celtic

• Derry City joins the Irish League.

Births

• 9 January – Brian Friel, playwright (died 2015).
• 29 June – Desmond Fennell, contrarian writer (died 2021).
• 8 July – A. T. Q. Stewart, historian (died 2010).
• 16 July – Tommy Dickson, footballer (died 2007).
• 25 August – Clifford Forsythe, Ulster Unionist MP for South Antrim (died 2000).
• 11 September – Patrick Mayhew, 10th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2016).
• 23 October – Robert Coulter, Ulster Unionist Party MLA (died 2018).

Deaths

• 15 January – Priscilla Studd, Protestant Christian missionary, died in Spain (born 1864).
• 29 April – Otto Jaffe, twice elected as Irish Unionist Party Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1846).

See also

• 1929 in Scotland
• 1929 in Wales

References