1924 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1924 in Northern Ireland.
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Incumbents
Events
- January & June â 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.[1]
- 24 March â Ballycastle Railway closes due to financial difficulties.[2]
- 24 April â 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 â James Craig refuses to nominate a Northern Ireland representative to the Boundary Commission.
- 11 August â Ballycastle Railway reopens under Northern Counties Committee ownership.[2]
- 14 September â First BBC broadcast from Belfast (station 2BE).
- 24 October â Ãamon de Valera is arrested at Newry Town Hall after defying an order preventing him from speaking in Northern Ireland.
Sport
Football
- International
- Winners: Queen's Island
- Winners: Queen's Island 1 - 0 Willowfield
Births
- 12 January â Arthur Armstrong, painter (died 1996).
- 15 April â Padraic Fiacc, poet (died 2019).
- 18 April â Roy Mason, fourth Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2015).
- 26 May â Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (died 1993).
- 11 July â Charlie Tully, footballer (died 1971).
- 26 September â Max Clendinning, architect and interior designer (died 2020).
- 2 December â William Craig, former Unionist MP and founder of the Ulster Vanguard movement (died 2011).
- 14 December â Andy Thompson, Canadian politician (died 2016).
- 17 December â Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Party MP for North Belfast from 1983 to 2001 (died 2007).
- Full date unknown â Kennedy Lindsay, Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party politician and British Ulster Dominion Party leader (died 1997) (born in Canada).
Deaths
- 6 June â William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman (born 1847).
- 22 October â Anne Marjorie Robinson, painter (born 1858).
