1924 in Northern Ireland

Centuries:	20th; 21st;
Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s;
See also:	1924 in the United Kingdom; 1924 in Ireland; Other events of 1924; List of years in Northern Ireland;

Events during the year 1924 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

January & June – 1924 Northern Ireland local elections, following changes by the Unionist government, which has redrawn electoral districts, abolished the single transferable vote and implemented a requirement for members of local authorities to take an oath of allegiance to the UK.^[1]
24 March – Ballycastle Railway closes due to financial difficulties.^[2]
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.^[2]
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)^[3]

15 March Northern Ireland 0 - 1 Wales^[3]

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

Winners: Queen's Island

Winners: Queen's Island 1 - 0 Willowfield

12 January – Arthur Armstrong, painter (died 1996).
15 April – Padraic Fiacc, poet (died 2019).
18 April – Roy Mason, fourth Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2015).
26 May – Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (died 1993).
11 July – Charlie Tully, footballer (died 1971).
26 September – Max Clendinning, architect and interior designer (died 2020).
2 December – William Craig, former Unionist MP and founder of the Ulster Vanguard movement (died 2011).
14 December – Andy Thompson, Canadian politician (died 2016).
17 December – Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Party MP for North Belfast from 1983 to 2001 (died 2007).
Full date unknown – Kennedy Lindsay, Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party politician and British Ulster Dominion Party leader (died 1997) (born in Canada).

6 June – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman (born 1847).
22 October – Anne Marjorie Robinson, painter (born 1858).

↑ Hill, J. R., ed. (2003). A New History of Ireland Volume VII: Ireland, 1921–84. Oxford University Press. p. 124.
1 2 "Ballycastle Railway Station". Ballycastle. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2007.
1 2 3 Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 164. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.