1924 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1924 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

 * Governor - 	 The Duke of Abercorn
 * Prime Minister - James Craig

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 (station 2BE).
 * 24 October – Éamon de Valera is arrested at Newry Town Hall after defying an order preventing him from speaking in Northern Ireland.

Football

 * International
 * 1 March Scotland 2 - 0 Northern Ireland (in Glasgow)
 * 15 March Northern Ireland 0 - 1 Wales
 * 22 October England 3 - 1 Northern Ireland (in Liverpool)


 * Irish League
 * Winners: Queen's Island


 * Irish Cup
 * Winners: Queen's Island 1 - 0 Willowfield

Births

 * 12 January – Arthur Armstrong, painter (died 1996).
 * 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 (died 1993).
 * 11 July – Charlie Tully, footballer (died 1971).
 * 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 (died 2007).
 * Full date unknown
 * Max Clendinning, architect and interior designer.
 * Kennedy Lindsay, Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party politician and British Ulster Dominion Party leader (died 1997) (born in Canada).

Deaths

 * 6 June – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman (born 1847).
 * Full date unknown - Anne Marjorie Robinson, artist (born 1858).