1929 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1929 in Northern Ireland.
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Incumbents
Events
- 8 February â A Belfast court sentences Fianna Fáil leader Ãamon de Valera to one month in jail for illegally entering County Armagh.
- 22 May â 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 â United Kingdom general election.
- 23 July â 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
- Winners: Belfast Celtic
- Winners: Ballymena United 2 - 1 Belfast Celtic
- Derry City joins the Irish League.
Births
- 9 January â Brian Friel, playwright (died 2015).
- 29 June â Desmond Fennell, contrarian writer (died 2021).
- 8 July â A. T. Q. Stewart, historian (died 2010).
- 16 July â Tommy Dickson, footballer (died 2007).
- 25 August â Clifford Forsythe, Ulster Unionist MP for South Antrim (died 2000).
- 11 September â Patrick Mayhew, 10th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2016).
- 23 October â Robert Coulter, Ulster Unionist Party MLA (died 2018).
Deaths
- 15 January â Priscilla Studd, Protestant Christian missionary, died in Spain (born 1864).
- 29 April â Otto Jaffe, twice elected as Irish Unionist Party Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1846).