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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.

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)

Winners: Queen's Island

Winners: Queen's Island 1 - 0 Willowfield

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).

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

^ "Ballycastle Railway Station". Ballycastle. Retrieved 27 October 2007.
^ Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 164. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.

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