1935 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1935 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 1 April – The National Athletics and Cycling Association is suspended from the International Amateur Athletic Federation for refusing to confine its activities to the Free State side of the border.
- 18 June – Ministry of Home Affairs bans all parades from this date, but lifts it for 12 July parades.[1]
- 12 July – Rioting breaks out in Belfast following Orange Order parades. By 21 July nine people have been shot dead and scores injured.[2] Rioting continues to the end of August, by which time eight Protestants and five Catholics have been killed, hundreds injured and over 2,000 homes destroyed (almost all Catholic).[1]
- 26 October – Lord Edward Carson, the Dublin-born unionist leader and barrister, is buried in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.
- 14 November – United Kingdom general election.
Arts and literature
[edit]- September – Louis MacNeice publishes his Poems.[3]
- 7 December – The Strand Cinema is opened in Belfast.[4]
Sport
[edit]Football
[edit]- Winners: Linfield
Golf
[edit]- British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: Wanda Morgan).
Births
[edit]- 3 February – Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim.
- 29 March – Ruby Murray, singer (died 1996).
- 9 May – Rev. John Coey Smyth, President of Elim Pentecostal Church (died 2020).
- 21 April – Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran, bobsledder and politician.
- 22 June – Walter Love, broadcaster (died 2024).[5]
- 11 July – Oliver Napier, first leader of the Alliance Party.
- 27 July – Billy McCullough, international soccer player.
- 30 September – James McKendry, artist.
- 3 October – Jimmy Hill, soccer player and manager.
- 9 October – Billy Bell, Ulster Unionist Party Lord Mayor of Belfast and also of Lisburn.
- 21 October – Derek Bell, harpist and composer (died 2002).[6]
- Full date unknown – Mary Nelis, Sinn Féin MLA.
Deaths
[edit]- 17 July – George William Russell, critic, poet and artist (born 1867).
- 22 July – William Mulholland, water service engineer in Southern California (born 1855).
- 9 August – James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington, businessman and philanthropist (born 1849).
- 23 August – Charles Rafter, Chief Constable of Birmingham City Police from 1899 to 1935 (b. c1860).
- 22 October – Edward Carson, Irish Unionist leader, barrister and judge (born 1854).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Parades and Marches - Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
- ^ Stewart, A. T. Q. (1981). Edward Carson. Gill’s Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
- ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ "A brief history of the Strand". Strand Arts Centre. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Radio Ulster broadcaster Walter Love dies aged 88". BBC. 26 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ Laing, Dave (19 October 2002). "Obituary: Derek Bell". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 11 January 2018.