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]