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1929 in Northern Ireland

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Centuries:
  
20th 21st

Decades:
  
1920s 1930s 1940s

Incumbents

  • Monarch - George V

    • Events

  • 8 February - A Belfast court sentences Fianna Fáil leader, Éamon de Valera, to one month in jail for illegally entering County Armagh.
  • 22 May - Northern Ireland general election for the Parliament of Northern Ireland, the first held following abolition of proportional representation and the redrawing of electoral boundaries to create single-seat territorial constituencies. The Ulster Unionist Party retains a substantial majority.
  • 30 May - United Kingdom general election.
  • Six banks in Northern Ireland begin to issue banknotes in sterling.

    • Football

  • International
  • Irish League
  • Irish Cup
  • Derry City joins the Irish League.

    • Births

  • 9 January - Brian Friel, playwright (died 2015).
  • 16 July - Tommy Dickson, footballer (died 2007).
  • 25 August - Clifford Forsythe, Ulster Unionist MP for South Antrim (died 2000).
  • 11 September - Patrick Mayhew, 10th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

    • Full date unknown

  • Robert Coulter, Ulster Unionist Party MLA.
  • Desmond Fennell, writer.

    • Deaths

  • 29 April - Otto Jaffe, twice elected as Irish Unionist Party Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1846).
  • Priscilla Studd, Protestant Christian missionary.

    • References

    1929 in Northern Ireland Wikipedia
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