1929 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.
• 23 July - Construction of the first 1000 ft -long ocean liner, RMMV Oceanic, for the White Star Line, begun by Harland and Wolff in Belfast in 1928, is cancelled.
• Six banks in Northern Ireland begin to issue banknotes in sterling.

  Sport

Football

• International
• Irish League
• Irish Cup
• Derry City joins the Irish League.

  Births

• 9 January - Brian Friel, playwright.
• 16 July - Tommy Dickson, footballer.
• 25 August - Clifford Forsythe, Ulster Unionist MP for South Antrim.
• 31 August - Elizabeth Magowan Jeffers
• 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.
• Priscilla Studd, Protestant Christian missionary.