← 1930 1929 1928 1931 in Northern Ireland → 1932 1933 1934
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	1931 in the United Kingdom 1931 in Ireland Other events of 1931 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1931 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

• Governor - The Duke of Abercorn
• Prime Minister - James Craig

Events

• 9 January – Ulster Canal abandoned.^[1][2]
• Ulster Protestant League established.

Sport

Births

• 24 January – Charles Harding Smith, loyalist paramilitary
• 15 February – John Erritt, Deputy Director of the British Government Statistical Service (died 2002).^[3]
• 8 April – Paddie Bell, folk singer (died 2005).
• 9 April – Patrick Walsh, Bishop of Down & Connor (1991- ).
• 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.
• 28 June – John Morrow, Presbyterian minister and peace activist (died 2009).
• 29 June – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Law Lord.
• 4 July – Stephen Boyd, actor (died 1977).
• 5 August – Billy Bingham, international footballer and manager (died 2022).
• 25 October – Jimmy McIlroy, international footballer.
• 31 December – Bob Shaw, science fiction novelist (died 1996).

Deaths

See also

• 1931 in Scotland
• 1931 in Wales

References