1924 in Northern Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 6 References

Events

• 24 March - Ballycastle Railway closes due to financial difficulties.^[1]
• 24 April - 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 - James Craig refuses to nominate a Northern Ireland representative to the Boundary Commission.
• 11 August - Ballycastle Railway reopens under Northern Counties Committee ownership.^[1]
• 14 September - First BBC broadcast from Belfast (station 2BE).
• 24 October - Éamon de Valera is arrested at Newry Town Hall after defying an order preventing him from speaking in Northern Ireland.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• International

1 March Scotland 2 - 0 Northern Ireland (in Glasgow)^[2]

15 March Northern Ireland 0 - 1 Wales^[2]

22 October England 3 - 1 Northern Ireland (in Liverpool)^[2]

• Irish League

Winners: Queen's Island

• Irish Cup

Winners: Queen's Island 1 - 0 Willowfield

Births

• 12 January - Arthur Armstrong, painter (d.1996).
• 15 April - Padraic Fiacc, poet.
• 18 April - Roy Mason, fourth Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
• 26 May - Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (d.1993).
• 11 July - Charlie Tully, footballer (d. 1971).
• 2 December - William Craig, former Unionist MP and founder of the Ulster Vanguard movement.
• 14 December - Andy Thompson, former Canadian politician.
• 17 December - Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Party MP for North Belfast from 1983 to 2001 (d.2007).

Deaths

• 6 June - William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman (b.1847)

Full date unknown

• Marjorie Robinson, artist (b.1858)

References