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1934 in Northern Ireland

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Events during the year 1934 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

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

Events

  • 20 January – The funeral of the veteran nationalist Member of Parliament, Joseph Devlin, takes place in Belfast.
  • 27 January – Presentation of Belfast Castle to the City of Belfast by the Earl of Shaftesbury is announced.
  • 28 March – Belfast Zoo opens in part of Bellevue Pleasure Gardens.
  • 24 April – 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").
  • 29 May – King's Hall, Belfast, the largest exhibition venue in Northern Ireland, is opened.

Arts and literature

Main article: 1934 in art

Sport

Football

  • Irish League ::Winners: Linfield

  • Irish Cup ::Winners: Linfield 4 - 0 Cliftonville

  • Ballymena Football Club is renamed Ballymena United F.C.

Births

  • 20 January – Josias Cunningham, stock broker, farmer and politician (died 2000).
  • 3 March – Peter Brooke, 9th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
  • 8 April – Wilson Clyde, former Democratic Unionist Party politician.
  • 14 May – Francis Fee, cricketer.
  • 23 May – Syd Millar, former international rugby player and chairman of the International Rugby Board.
  • 28 June – Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, barrister and judge.
  • 4 July – James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn, soldier, politician and peer.
  • 18 August – Ronnie Carroll, singer and entertainer (died 2015).
  • 14 November – Catherine McGuinness, President of the Law Reform Commission and former justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland.

Deaths

  • 18 January – Joseph Devlin, Nationalist politician and MP in the British House of Commons and in Northern Ireland (born 1872).
  • April – Robert McCall, lawyer (born 1849).

References

References

  1. (27 January 1934). "Belfast Castle Presented to the City". Belfast Telegraph.
  2. (29 March 1934). "Opening of Belfast Zoo". Londonderry Sentinel.
  3. "Stormont Papers".
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