1930 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1930 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
- The Education (Northern Ireland) Act restores 50% government funding to Voluntary (chiefly Catholic) schools and allows religious instruction in controlled schools.{{cite web|title=1930|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/educ/ei1930.htm|work=History of Education|publisher=CAIN Web Service – Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland (University of Ulster)|accessdate=22 August 2012}}
Sport
=Football=
- International
::1 February Northern Ireland 7 – 0 Wales (Joe Bambrick scored six of the goals){{cite book|last=Hayes|first=Dean|year=2006|title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts|publisher=Appletree Press|location=Belfast|pages=167–168|isbn=0-86281-874-5}}
::22 February Scotland 3 – 1 Northern Ireland (in Glasgow)
::20 October England 5 – 1 Northern Ireland (in Sheffield)
::Winners: Linfield
::Winners: Linfield 4 – 3 Ballymena United
Births
- 8 March – Douglas Hurd, seventh Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
- 8 May – Heather Harper, operatic soprano (died 2019).
- 9 July – Hugh Morrow, footballer and manager
- 23 September – Colin Blakely, actor (died 1987).
- Jim Anderson, loyalist paramilitary
- Tomás Ó Canainn, electrical engineer and traditional musician (died 2013).
Deaths
- 1 October – James Whiteside McCay, Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments (born 1864).
- May Crommelin, novelist and travel writer (born 1849/1850).