1924 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Monarch - George V

  Events

• 24 March - Ballycastle Railway closes due to financial difficulties.
• 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.
• 14 September - First BBC broadcast from Belfast.
• 24 October - Éamon de Valera is arrested at Newry Town Hall after defying an order preventing him from speaking in Northern Ireland.

  Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• International
• Irish League
• Irish Cup

  Births

• 12 January - Arthur Armstrong, painter.
• 15 April - Padraic Fiacc, poet.
• 18 April - Roy Mason, fourth Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
• 26 May - Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont.
• 11 July - Charlie Tully, footballer.
• 2 December - William Craig, former Unionist MP and founder of the Ulster Vanguard movement.
• 14 December - Andy Thompson, Canadian politician.
• 17 December - Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Party MP for North Belfast from 1983 to 2001.
• Full date unknown - Max Clendinning, architect and interior designer.

  Deaths

• 6 June - William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman.
• Full date unknown - Anne Marjorie Robinson, artist.