1924 in Northern Ireland

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Incumbents

24 March - Ballycastle Railway closes due to financial difficulties.^[1]
24 April - No agreement is reached at the Boundary Conference in London. The Irish Boundary Commission is now set up to examine the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.
6 May - James Craig refuses to nominate a Northern Ireland representative to the Boundary Commission.
11 August - Ballycastle Railway reopens under Northern Counties Committee ownership.^[1]
14 September - First BBC broadcast from Belfast (station 2BE).
24 October - Éamon de Valera is arrested at Newry Town Hall after defying an order preventing him from speaking in Northern Ireland.

1 March Scotland 2 - 0 Northern Ireland (in Glasgow)^[2]

15 March Northern Ireland 0 - 1 Wales^[2]

22 October England 3 - 1 Northern Ireland (in Liverpool)^[2]

Winners: Queen's Island

Winners: Queen's Island 1 - 0 Willowfield

12 January - Arthur Armstrong, painter (died 1996).
15 April - Padraic Fiacc, poet.
18 April - Roy Mason, fourth Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
26 May - Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (died 1993).
11 July - Charlie Tully, footballer (died 1971).
2 December - William Craig, former Unionist MP and founder of the Ulster Vanguard movement.
14 December - Andy Thompson, Canadian politician.
17 December - Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Party MP for North Belfast from 1983 to 2001 (died 2007).
Full date unknown - Max Clendinning, architect and interior designer.

6 June - William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman (born 1847).
Full date unknown - Marjorie Robinson, artist (born 1858).

1 2 "Ballycastle Railway Station". Ballycastle. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
1 2 3 Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 164. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.

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