// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did 1931 in Northern Ireland say? "I'm thirty-one and Ireland to stay.
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Events during the year 1931 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 9 January – Ulster Canal abandoned.[1][2]
- Ulster Protestant League established.
Sport
[edit]Football
[edit]- The Northern Ireland international soccer team change the colour of their shirt from blue to green.
- Irish League
- Winners: Glentoran
- Winners: Linfield 3 - 0 Ballymena United
Births
[edit]- 24 January – Charles Harding Smith, loyalist paramilitary (died 1997).
- 15 February – John Erritt, deputy director of the British Government Statistical Service (died 2002).[3]
- 18 February – Peter Scott, né Gulston, burglar (died 2013 in London).
- 8 April – Paddie Bell, folk singer (died 2005).
- 9 April – Patrick Walsh, Bishop of Down & Connor (1991–2008) (died 2023).
- 15 April – Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service and member of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission and the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains.
- 25 April – James Fenton, Ulster Scots poet (died 2021).
- 15 June – Martin Smyth, Unionist politician and minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (died 2025).
- 28 June – John Morrow, Presbyterian minister and peace activist (died 2009).
- 29 June – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Law Lord (died 2020).
- 4 July – Stephen Boyd, actor (died 1977).
- 5 August – Billy Bingham, international footballer and manager (died 2022).
- 25 October – Jimmy McIlroy, international footballer (died 2018).
- 2 November – Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's, Democratic Unionist Party politician and life peer.
- 31 December – Bob Shaw, science fiction novelist (died 1996).
Deaths
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Delany, Ruth (1986). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. ISBN 0-86281-200-3.
- ↑ "Abandonment of Ulster Canal". Northern Whig. Belfast. 14 January 1931. p. 1.
- ↑ "Erritt, (Michael) John (Mackey) : Who Was Who - oi". Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u15060. Retrieved 11 January 2018.