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Decades: 1920s • 1930s • 1940s Centuries: 20th • 21st See also: 1927 in the United Kingdom 1927 in Ireland Other events of 1927

Events

• 12 April - The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.

Arts and literature

Sport

• 18 April - Celtic Park in Belfast is opened. It is the first greyhound track in Ireland.

Football

• International

26 February Northern Ireland 0 - 2 Scotland^[1]

9 April Wales 2 - 2 Northern Ireland (in Cardiff)^[1]

22 October Northern Ireland 2 - 0 England^[1]

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Ards 3 - 2 Cliftonville

Golf

• British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: Simone de la Chaume).

Births

• 8 July - Maurice Hayes, writer and public servant.
• July - Thomas Leslie Teevan, Unionist politician and lawyer (d.1954).
• 31 August - Thomas McCloy, cricketer.
• 1 October - Alf McMichael, footballer (d.2006).
• 23 November - John Cole, journalist and broadcaster.

Full date unknown

• Billy McMillen, Official Irish Republican Army officer, killed in feud with Irish National Liberation Army (d.1975).
• Brendan Smyth, Catholic priest and convicted child molester (d.1997).

Deaths

• 22 April - Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast (b.1853).

References

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