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1929 in Northern Ireland
Events during the year
1929 in
Northern Ireland
.
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
.
23 July - Construction of the first 1000
ft
-long
ocean liner
, RMMV
Oceanic
, for the
White Star Line
, begun by
Harland and Wolff
in Belfast in
1928
, is cancelled.
Six banks in Northern Ireland begin to issue
banknotes
in
sterling
.
Sport
Football
International
Irish League
Irish Cup
Derry City joins the Irish League.
Births
9 January -
Brian Friel
, playwright.
16 July -
Tommy Dickson
, footballer.
25 August -
Clifford Forsythe
,
Ulster Unionist
MP
for
South Antrim
.
31 August -
Elizabeth Magowan Jeffers
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
.
Priscilla Studd,
Protestant
Christian missionary
.