- 1924 in Northern Ireland
Events
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24 March -Ballycastle Railway closes due to financial difficulties.cite web | title=Ballycastle Railway Station | work=Ballycastle | url=http://www.ballycastle.free-online.co.uk/info/railway/oldrailway.htm | accessdate=2007-10-27]
*24 April - No agreement is reached at the Boundary Conference inLondon . The government now sets up a Boundary Commission to examine the border between theIrish Free State andNorthern Ireland .
*6 May - James Craig refuses to nominate aNorthern Ireland representative to the Boundary Commission.
*11 August -Ballycastle Railway reopens underNorthern Counties Committee ownership.
*14 September - First BBC broadcast fromBelfast (station 2BE).
*24 October -Éamon de Valera is arrested atNewry Town Hall after he defied an order preventing him from speaking inNorthern Ireland .Arts and literature
port
Football
*International::
1 March Scotland 2 - 0 Northern Ireland (inGlasgow )cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 164|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::15 March Northern Ireland 0 - 1 Wales::22 October England 3 - 1 Northern Ireland (inLiverpool )*Irish League::Winners: Queen's Island
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Irish Cup ::Winners: Queen's Island 1 - 0 WillowfieldBirths
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15 April -Padraic Fiacc , poet.
*18 April -Roy Mason , fourthSecretary of State for Northern Ireland .
*26 May -Sheelagh Murnaghan , onlyUlster Liberal Party Member of Parliament atStormont (d.1993).
*11 July -Charlie Tully , footballer (d. 1971).
*2 December -William Craig , former Unionist MP and founder of the Ulster Vanguard movement.
*14 December -Andy Thompson , former Canadian politician.
*17 December -Cecil Walker ,Ulster Unionist Party MP for North Belfast from1983 to2001 (d.2007).Deaths
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6 June -William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie , shipbuilder and businessman (b.1847).References
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