1934 in Northern Ireland explained

Events during the year 1934 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

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.^[1]
28 March – Belfast Zoo opens in part of Bellevue Pleasure Gardens.^[2]
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").^[3]
29 May – King's Hall, Belfast, the largest exhibition venue in Northern Ireland, is opened.

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Winners: Linfield

Winners: Linfield 4 - 0 Cliftonville

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.

Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's, Democratic Unionist Party politician and life peer.

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).

News: Belfast Castle Presented to the City. Belfast Telegraph. 27 January 1934. 5.
News: Opening of Belfast Zoo. Londonderry Sentinel. 29 March 1934. 6.
Web site: Stormont Papers . 16 . 1095 . 24 August 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190258/http://www.ahds.ac.uk/stormontpapers/pageview.html?volumeno=16&pageno=1095 . 3 March 2016 .