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See also:
1923 in the United Kingdom
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Other events of 1923
List of years in Northern Ireland
Events during the year
1923 in
Northern Ireland
.
Incumbents
Governor
-
The Duke of Abercorn
Prime Minister
-
James Craig
Events
1 April – The
Provisional Government of Ireland
establishes
customs
posts on the border with Northern Ireland.
[1]
28 May – The government releases two captured documents issued by the
IRA
on 24 May. The letters, signed by
Éamon de Valera
and
Frank Aiken
call for the dumping of arms and the ending of armed struggle. The
Civil War
is officially over.
The
Church of Ireland
parish church of St. Anne in
Enniskillen
is raised to the dignity of the
cathedral church of St. Macartin
.
[2]
Sport
Football
International
3 March Northern Ireland 0 - 1 Scotland
[3]
14 April Wales 0 - 3 Northern Ireland (in
Wrexham
)
[3]
20 October Northern Ireland 2 - 1 England
[3]
Irish League
Winners:
Linfield
Irish Cup
Winners:
Linfield
2 - 0
Glentoran
Belfast side Alton United of the Falls District League are shock winners of the
Free State Cup
beating
Shelbourne
1–0 in the final at
Dalymount Park
. Clubs and leagues in nationalist areas of
Northern Ireland
had affiliated to the
FA of the Irish Free State
after the 1921 split from the Belfast-based
Irish Football Association
.
Newry Town Football Club
is founded.
Births
24 January –
Donald Murray
,
Lord Justice of Appeal
of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland.
1 February –
Sir John Gorman
,
Ulster Unionist Party
MLA
for
North Down
.
12 February –
James Chichester-Clark
, Fifth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (died
2002
).
[4]
12 April –
Barry Shaw
, barrister, first Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland (died
2010
)
24 May –
Siobhán McKenna
, actress (died
1986
).
20 September –
Geraldine Clinton Little
, poet (died
1997
).
3 November –
Tomás Ó Fiaich
,
Cardinal
Archbishop of Armagh
and
Primate of All Ireland
1978-1990 (died
1990
)
Full date unknown
F. S. L. Lyons
, historian (died
1983
).
Sean McAloon
,
Uilleann piper
and pipe maker (died
1998
).
Deaths
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(
July 2010
)
See also
1923 in Scotland
1923 in Wales
References
^
Moore, Cormac (21 June 2016).
"A customs border between North and South? What we can learn from Ireland in 1923"
.
TheJournal.ie
. Dublin
. Retrieved
13 May
2021
.
^
"The History Page"
. St. Macartin's Cathedral
. Retrieved
20 July
2012
.
^
a
b
c
Hayes, Dean (2006).
Northern Ireland International Football Facts
. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 1.
ISBN
0-86281-874-5
.
^
Ryder, Chris (20 May 2002).
"Obituary: Lord Moyola"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
11 January
2018
.
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