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1931 in Northern Ireland

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Centuries:
  
20th 21st

Decades:
  
1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Incumbents

  • Monarch - George V
  • Events

  • Ulster Protestant League established.
  • Ulster Canal abandoned.
  • Football

  • The Northern Ireland international soccer team change the colour of their shirt from blue to green.
  • Irish League
  • Irish Cup
  • Births

  • 24 January - Charles Harding Smith, loyalist paramilitary
  • 15 February - John Erritt, Deputy Director of the British Government Statistical Service (died 2002).
  • 8 April - Paddie Bell, folk singer (died 2005)
  • 9 April - Patrick Walsh, Bishop of Down & Connor (1991 - )
  • 15 April - Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, former head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service and a member of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission and the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains.
  • 25 April - James Fenton, Ulster Scots poet.
  • 15 June - Martin Smyth, Unionist politician and minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
  • 28 June - John Morrow, Presbyterian minister and peace activist (died 2009)
  • 29 June - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, former Law Lord.
  • 4 July - Stephen Boyd, actor (died 1977).
  • 5 August - Billy Bingham, footballer and football manager.
  • 25 October - Jimmy McIlroy, former international soccer player.
  • 31 December - Bob Shaw, science fiction novelist (died 1996).
  • References

    1931 in Northern Ireland Wikipedia