1929 in Northern Ireland

← 1928 1927 1926 1929 in Northern Ireland → 1930 1931 1932
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	1929 in the United Kingdom 1929 in Ireland Other events of 1929 List of years 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.
• Six banks in Northern Ireland begin to issue banknotes in sterling.

Sport

Football

• International

2 February Wales 2 - 2 Northern Ireland (in Wrexham)^[1]

23 February Northern Ireland 3 - 7 Scotland^[1]

19 October Northern Ireland 0 - 3 England^[1]

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Ballymena United 2 - 1 Belfast Celtic

• 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