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Events
- 1 April - The National Athletics and Cycling Association is suspended from the International Amateur Athletic Federation for refusing to confine its activities to the Free State side of the border.
- 18 June - Ministry of Home Affairs bans all parades from this date, but lifts it for 12 July parades.[1]
- 12 July - Rioting breaks out in Belfast following Orange Order parades. By 21 July nine people have been shot dead and scores injured.[2] Rioting continues to the end of August, by which time eight Protestants and five Catholics have been killed, hundreds injured and over 2,000 homes destroyed (almost all Catholic).[1]
- 26 October - Lord Edward Carson, the Dublin-born unionist leader and barrister, is buried in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.
- 14 November - United Kingdom general election.
Arts and literature
Sport
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- Winners: Linfield
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- Winners: Glentoran 1 - 0 Larne
Golf
Births
- 3 February - Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim.
- 29 March - Ruby Murray, singer (died 1996).
- 21 April - Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran, former bobsledder and politician.
- 11 July - Oliver Napier, first leader of the Alliance Party.
- 27 July - Billy McCullough, former international soccer player.
- 30 September - James McKendry, artist.
- 3 October - Jimmy Hill, soccer player and manager.
- 9 October - Billy Bell, Ulster Unionist Party former Lord Mayor of Belfast and also of Lisburn.
- 21 October - Derek Bell, harpist and composer (died 2002).
Full date unknown
Deaths
References
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