Events during the year 1934 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents Governor - The Duke of Abercorn Prime Minister - James Craig
Events 20 January – The funeral of the veteran nationalist Member of Parliament, Joseph Devlin, takes place in Belfast. 27 January – Presentation of Belfast Castle to the City of Belfast by the Earl of Shaftesbury is announced. 28 March – Belfast Zoo opens in part of Bellevue Pleasure Gardens. 24 April – In a debate in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, the Prime Minister, Lord Craigavon, states "All I boast of is that we are a Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State." (often misquoted as "A Protestant Parliament for a Protestant People"). 29 May – King's Hall, Belfast, the largest exhibition venue in Northern Ireland, is opened.
Arts and literature
Sport Football Irish League Winners: Linfield
Irish Cup Winners: Linfield 4 - 0 Cliftonville
Ballymena Football Club is renamed Ballymena United F.C.
Births 20 January – Josias Cunningham, stock broker, farmer and politician (died 2000). 3 March – Peter Brooke, 9th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. 8 April – Wilson Clyde, former Democratic Unionist Party politician. 14 May – Francis Fee, cricketer. 23 May – Syd Millar, former international rugby player and chairman of the International Rugby Board. 28 June – Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, barrister and judge. 4 July – James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn, soldier, politician and peer. 18 August – Ronnie Carroll, singer and entertainer (died 2015). 14 November – Catherine McGuinness, President of the Law Reform Commission and former justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland.
Deaths 18 January – Joseph Devlin, Nationalist politician and MP in the British House of Commons and in Northern Ireland (born 1872). April – Robert McCall, lawyer (born 1849).
See also 1934 in Scotland 1934 in Wales
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