1934 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1934 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 20 January – The funeral of the veteran nationalist Member of Parliament, Joseph Devlin, takes place in Belfast.
• 27 January – Presentation of Belfast Castle to the City of Belfast by the Earl of Shaftesbury is announced.
• 28 March – Belfast Zoo opens in part of Bellevue Pleasure Gardens.
• 24 April – In a debate in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, the Prime Minister, Lord Craigavon, states "All I boast of is that we are a Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State." (often misquoted as "A Protestant Parliament for a Protestant People").
• 29 May – King's Hall, Belfast, the largest exhibition venue in Northern Ireland, is opened.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• Irish League

:Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

:Winners: Linfield 4 - 0 Cliftonville

• Ballymena Football Club is renamed Ballymena United F.C.

Births

• 20 January – Josias Cunningham, stock broker, farmer and politician (died 2000).
• 3 March – Peter Brooke, 9th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
• 8 April – Wilson Clyde, former Democratic Unionist Party politician.
• 14 May – Francis Fee, cricketer.
• 23 May – Syd Millar, former international rugby player and chairman of the International Rugby Board.
• 28 June – Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, barrister and judge.
• 4 July – James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn, soldier, politician and peer.
• 18 August – Ronnie Carroll, singer and entertainer (died 2015).
• 14 November – Catherine McGuinness, President of the Law Reform Commission and former justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland.

Deaths

• 18 January – Joseph Devlin, Nationalist politician and MP in the British House of Commons and in Northern Ireland (born 1872).
• April – Robert McCall, lawyer (born 1849).

See also

• 1934 in Scotland
• 1934 in Wales

References