1931 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Governor - The Duke of Abercorn
• Prime Minister - James Craig

Events

• 9 January – Ulster Canal abandoned.
• 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

• Irish Cup ::Winners: Linfield 3 - 0 Ballymena United

Births

• 24 January – Charles Harding Smith, loyalist paramilitary (died 1997).
• 15 February – John Erritt, deputy director of the British Government Statistical Service (died 2002).
• 18 February – Peter Scott, né Gulston, burglar (died 2013 in London).
• 8 April – Paddie Bell, folk singer (died 2005).
• 9 April – Patrick Walsh, Bishop of Down & Connor (1991–2008) (died 2023).
• 15 April – 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 – James Fenton, Ulster Scots poet (died 2021).
• 15 June – Martin Smyth, Unionist politician and minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (died 2025).
• 28 June – John Morrow, Presbyterian minister and peace activist (died 2009).
• 29 June – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Law Lord (died 2020).
• 4 July – Stephen Boyd, actor (died 1977).
• 5 August – Billy Bingham, international footballer and manager (died 2022).
• 25 October – Jimmy McIlroy, international footballer (died 2018).
• 2 November – Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's, Democratic Unionist Party politician and life peer.
• 31 December – Bob Shaw, science fiction novelist (died 1996).

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 1931

References

References

1. Delany, Ruth. (1986). "A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways". Appletree Press.
2. (1931-01-14). "Abandonment of Ulster Canal". Northern Whig.
3. (December 2007). "Erritt, (Michael) John (Mackey) : Who Was Who - oi". Oxford University Press.