1935 in Northern Ireland

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Events

• 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.
• 12 July – Rioting breaks out in Belfast following Orange parades, by 21 July there were nine people shot dead and scores injured.
• August - Rioting continues to the end of the month. By that time 8 Protestants and 5 Catholics had been killed, hundreds injured and over 2,000 homes destroyed (almost all Catholic).
• 26 October - Lord Edward Carson, the Dublin-born unionist leader and barrister, is buried in Belfast.
• 14 November - United Kingdom general election, 1935.

Arts and literature

• The Strand Cinema is opened in Belfast.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Glentoran 1 - 0 Larne

Golf

• British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: Wanda Morgan).

Births

• 3 February - Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim.
• 29 March - Ruby Murray, singer (died 1996).
• 21 April - Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran, former bobsledder and politician.
• 11 July - Oliver Napier, first leader of the Alliance Party.
• 27 July - Billy McCullough, former international soccer player.
• 30 September - James McKendry, artist.
• 3 October - Jimmy Hill, soccer player and manager.
• 9 October - Billy Bell, Ulster Unionist Party former Lord Mayor of Belfast and also of Lisburn.
• 21 October - Derek Bell, harpist and composer (died 2002).

Full date unknown

• Mary Nelis - Sinn Féin MLA.

Deaths

• 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).