• Source: 1927 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1927 in Northern Ireland.




Incumbents


Governor - The Duke of Abercorn
Prime Minister - James Craig




Events


12 April – The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church breaks away from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.




Sport






= Football

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International
26 February Northern Ireland 0 - 2 Scotland
9 April Wales 2 - 2 Northern Ireland (in Cardiff)
22 October Northern Ireland 2 - 0 England
Irish League
Winners: Belfast Celtic
Irish Cup
Winners: Ards 3 - 2 Cliftonville




= Golf

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British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club (winner: Simone de la Chaume).
Belvoir Park Golf Club opened in Belfast.




= Greyhound racing

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18 April – The first greyhound racing track in Ireland opens at Celtic Park (Belfast).




Births


19 May – Billy McMillen, Official Irish Republican Army officer (killed in feud with Irish National Liberation Army 1975).
8 June – Brendan Smyth, Catholic priest and convicted child molester (died 1997).
2 July – R. J. G. Savage, palaeontologist (died 1998 in England).
8 July – Maurice Hayes, public servant, writer and independent member of Seanad Éireann (died 2017).
July - Thomas Teevan, Unionist politician and lawyer (died 1954).
31 August – Thomas McCloy, cricketer (died 2014).
1 October – Alf McMichael, footballer (died 2006).
23 November – John Cole, political journalist and broadcaster (died 2013 in England).
Full date unknown - Deborah Brown, sculptor.




Deaths


22 April – Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1853).
3 May – Tom Gallaher, tobacco manufacturer (born 1840).




See also


1927 in Scotland
1927 in Wales




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Britania Raya
• Alga
• Variety, the Children's Charity
• Halloween
• Pertempuran Dun Nechtain
• Skotlandia
• Daftar jurnal sejarah
• RMS Titanic
• London
• Monarki Britania Raya
• 1927 in Northern Ireland
• 1927 in Ireland
• John MacDermott
• Northern Ireland
• Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
• June 1927 Irish general election
• 1927–28 Irish Cup
• History of the Jews in Ireland
• List of statutory rules and orders of Northern Ireland, 1927
• September 1927 Irish general election