1928 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Monarch - George V

  Events

• 29 January - In Belfast, members of the nationalist opposition protest at the Ulster Unionist Party government's plan to abolish Proportional representation.
• 19 May - The foundation stone of the new Northern Ireland Parliament Building is laid at Stormont.
• 28 June - The keel of the first 1000ft -long ocean liner, Oceanic, for the White Star Line, is laid by Harland and Wolff in Belfast; construction is delayed, and will be cancelled in 1929.
• The struggling Clogher Valley Railway taken over by a committee of management appointed by Tyrone and Fermanagh County Councils.
• Work starts on building the Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast, completed in 1933.
• Irish Linen Guild established.

  Sport

Football

• International
• Irish League
• Irish Cup
• Derry City are founded, entering the Irish League the following year.
• 7 April - Ballymena United F.C. are founded as Ballymena Football Club.

  Births

• 19 February - Sam Cree, playwright.
• 7 April - James White, science fiction novelist.
• 18 April - Anne Dickson, former Unionist Party of Northern Ireland MP.
• 17 June - Basil McIvor, Ulster Unionist politician
• 28 June - John Stewart Bell, physicist and originator of Bell's Theorem.
• 25 July - Jimmy Jones, footballer
• 5 October - David Hammond, singer, filmmaker and broadcaster.
• 30 October - Charles Brett, lawyer, journalist, author and founding member of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society.
• 19 December - Eve Bunting, author.

  Deaths

• 19 November - Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron O'Neill, politician