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1928 in Northern Ireland

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Centuries:
  
20th 21st

Decades:
  
1920s 1930s 1940s

Incumbents

  • Monarch - George V
  • Events

  • 29 January - In Belfast, members of the nationalist opposition protest at the Ulster Unionist Party government's plan to abolish Proportional representation.
  • 19 May - The foundation stone of the new Northern Ireland Parliament Building is laid at Stormont.
  • Struggling Clogher Valley Railway taken over by a committee of management appointed by Tyrone and Fermanagh County Councils.
  • Work starts on building the Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast, completed in 1933.
  • Irish Linen Guild established.
  • Football

  • International
  • Irish League
  • Irish Cup
  • Derry City are founded, entering the Irish League the following year.
  • 7 April - Ballymena United F.C. are founded as Ballymena Football Club.
  • Births

  • 19 February - Sam Cree, playwright (died 1980).
  • 7 April - James White, science fiction novelist (died 1999).
  • 18 April - Anne Dickson, former Unionist Party of Northern Ireland MP.
  • 17 June - Basil McIvor, Ulster Unionist politician (died 2004)
  • 28 June - John Stewart Bell, physicist and originator of Bell's Theorem (died 1990).
  • 25 July - Jimmy Jones, footballer (died 2014)
  • 5 October - David Hammond, singer, filmmaker and broadcaster (died 2008).
  • 30 October - Charles Brett, lawyer, journalist, author and founding member of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society (died 2005).
  • 19 December - Eve Bunting, author.
  • Deaths

  • 19 November - Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron O'Neill, politician (born 1839)
  • References

    1928 in Northern Ireland Wikipedia