Events during the year 1927 in Northern Ireland.
Contents
Incumbents
Governor - The Duke of Abercorn
Prime Minister - James Craig
Events
Sport
Football
International
26 February Northern Ireland 0 - 2 Scotland
9 April Wales 2 - 2 Northern Ireland (in Cardiff)
22 October Northern Ireland 2 - 0 England
Irish League
Winners: Belfast Celtic
Irish Cup
Winners: Ards 3 - 2 Cliftonville
Golf
British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club (winner: Simone de la Chaume).
Belvoir Park Golf Club opened in Belfast.
Greyhound racing
18 April – The first greyhound racing track in Ireland opens at Celtic Park (Belfast).
Births
19 May – Billy McMillen, Official Irish Republican Army officer (killed in feud with Irish National Liberation Army 1975).
8 June – Brendan Smyth, Catholic priest and convicted child molester (died 1997).
2 July – R. J. G. Savage, palaeontologist (died 1998 in England).
8 July – Maurice Hayes, public servant, writer and independent member of Seanad Éireann (died 2017).
July - Thomas Teevan, Unionist politician and lawyer (died 1954).
31 August – Thomas McCloy, cricketer (died 2014).
1 October – Alf McMichael, footballer (died 2006).
23 November – John Cole, political journalist and broadcaster (died 2013 in England).
Full date unknown - Deborah Brown, sculptor.
Deaths
22 April – Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1853).
3 May – Tom Gallaher, tobacco manufacturer (born 1840).