1931 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1931 in Northern Ireland.
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Incumbents
Events
- 9 January â Ulster Canal abandoned.[1][2]
- Ulster Protestant League established.
Sport
Football
- The Northern Ireland international soccer team change the colour of their shirt from blue to green.
- Irish League
- Winners: Glentoran
- Winners: Linfield 3 - 0 Ballymena United
Births
- 24 January â Charles Harding Smith, loyalist paramilitary (died 1997).
- 15 February â John Erritt, deputy director of the British Government Statistical Service (died 2002).[3]
- 18 February â Peter Scott, né Gulston, burglar (died 2013 in London).
- 8 April â Paddie Bell, folk singer (died 2005).
- 9 April â Patrick Walsh, Bishop of Down & Connor (1991â2008) (died 2023).
- 15 April â Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service and member of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission and the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains.
- 25 April â James Fenton, Ulster Scots poet (died 2021).
- 15 June â Martin Smyth, Unionist politician and minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (died 2025).
- 28 June â John Morrow, Presbyterian minister and peace activist (died 2009).
- 29 June â Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Law Lord (died 2020).
- 4 July â Stephen Boyd, actor (died 1977).
- 5 August â Billy Bingham, international footballer and manager (died 2022).
- 25 October â Jimmy McIlroy, international footballer (died 2018).
- 2 November â Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's, Democratic Unionist Party politician and life peer.
- 31 December â Bob Shaw, science fiction novelist (died 1996).