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.
• 24 October – Éamon de Valera is arrested at Newry Town Hall after defying an order preventing him from speaking in Northern Ireland.

Sport

Football

• International
• Irish League
• '''Irish Cup'''

Births

• 12 January – Arthur Armstrong, painter.
• 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.
• 11 July – Charlie Tully, footballer.
• 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.
• Full date unknown
• *Max Clendinning, architect and interior designer.
• *Kennedy Lindsay, Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party politician and British Ulster Dominion Party leader .

Deaths

• 6 June – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman.
• Full date unknown - Anne Marjorie Robinson, artist.