1929 in Northern Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 6 References

Events

• 8 February - A Belfast court sentences Fianna Fáil leader, Éamon de Valera, to one month in jail for illegally entering County Armagh.
• 31 May - United Kingdom general election, 1929
• Proportional Representation is abolished in Northern Ireland.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• International

2 February Wales 2 - 2 Northern Ireland (in Wrexham)^[1]

23 February Northern Ireland 3 - 7 Scotland^[1]

19 October Northern Ireland 0 - 3 England^[1]

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Ballymena United 2 - 1 Belfast Celtic

• Derry City joins the Irish League.

Births

• 9 January - Brian Friel, playwright.
• 16 July - Tommy Dickson, footballer (d.2007).
• 25 August - Clifford Forsythe, Ulster Unionist MP for South Antrim (d.2000).
• 11 September - Patrick Mayhew, 10th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Full date unknown

• Robert Coulter, Ulster Unionist Party MLA.
• Desmond Fennell, writer.

Deaths

• 29 April - Otto Jaffe, twice elected as Irish Unionist Party Lord Mayor of Belfast (b.1846).
• Priscilla Studd, Protestant Christian missionary.

References