1934 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1934 in Northern Ireland.
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Incumbents
Events
- 20 January â The funeral of the veteran nationalist Member of Parliament, Joseph Devlin, takes place in Belfast.
- 27 January â Presentation of Belfast Castle to the City of Belfast by the Earl of Shaftesbury is announced.[1]
- 28 March â Belfast Zoo opens in part of Bellevue Pleasure Gardens.[2]
- 24 April â 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").[3]
- 29 May â King's Hall, Belfast, the largest exhibition venue in Northern Ireland, is opened.
Arts and literature
Sport
Football
- Winners: Linfield
- Winners: Linfield 4 - 0 Cliftonville
- Ballymena Football Club is renamed Ballymena United F.C.
Births
- 20 January â Josias Cunningham, stock broker, farmer and politician (died 2000).
- 3 March â Peter Brooke, 9th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
- 8 April â Wilson Clyde, former Democratic Unionist Party politician.
- 14 May â Francis Fee, cricketer.
- 23 May â Syd Millar, former international rugby player and chairman of the International Rugby Board.
- 28 June â Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, barrister and judge.
- 4 July â James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn, soldier, politician and peer.
- 18 August â Ronnie Carroll, singer and entertainer (died 2015).
- 14 November â Catherine McGuinness, President of the Law Reform Commission and former justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland.
Deaths
- 18 January â Joseph Devlin, Nationalist politician and MP in the British House of Commons and in Northern Ireland (born 1872).
- April â Robert McCall, lawyer (born 1849).