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Incumbents
Events
- 1 April - The National Athletics and Cycling Association is suspended from the International Amateur Athletic Federation for refusing to confine its activities to the Free State side of the border.
- 18 June - Ministry of Home Affairs bans all parades from this date, but lifts it for 12 July parades.[1]
- 12 July - Rioting breaks out in Belfast following Orange Order parades. By 21 July nine people have been shot dead and scores injured.[2] Rioting continues to the end of August, by which time eight Protestants and five Catholics have been killed, hundreds injured and over 2,000 homes destroyed (almost all Catholic).[1]
- 26 October - Lord Edward Carson, the Dublin-born unionist leader and barrister, is buried in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.
- 14 November - United Kingdom general election.
Arts and literature
- The Strand Cinema is opened in Belfast.
- Louis MacNeice publishes his Poems.[3]
Sport
Football
- Winners: Linfield
Golf
- British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: Wanda Morgan).
Births
- 3 February - Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim.
- 29 March - Ruby Murray, singer (died 1996).
- 21 April - Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran, former bobsledder and politician.
- 11 July - Oliver Napier, first leader of the Alliance Party.
- 27 July - Billy McCullough, former international soccer player.
- 30 September - James McKendry, artist.
- 3 October - Jimmy Hill, soccer player and manager.
- 9 October - Billy Bell, Ulster Unionist Party former Lord Mayor of Belfast and also of Lisburn.
- 21 October - Derek Bell, harpist and composer (died 2002).
Full date unknown
Deaths
- 17 July - George William Russell, critic, poet and artist (born 1867).
- 22 July - William Mulholland, water service engineer in Southern California (born 1855).
- 9 August - James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington, businessman and philanthropist (born 1849).
- 23 August - Charles Rafter, Chief Constable of Birmingham City Police from 1899 to 1935 (b. c1860).
- 22 October - Edward Carson, Irish Unionist leader, barrister and judge (born 1854).
References
- 1 2 "Parades and Marches - Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 2010-01-28.
- ↑ Stewart, A. T. Q. (1981). Edward Carson. Gill’s Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
- ↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
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