Events during the year 1928 in Northern Ireland.

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

• 29 January – In Belfast, members of the nationalist opposition protest at the Ulster Unionist Party government's plan to abolish Proportional representation.
• 19 May – The foundation stone of the new Northern Ireland Parliament Building is laid at Stormont.
• 28 June – The keel of the first 1000 ft (300 m)-long ocean liner, Oceanic, for the White Star Line, is laid by Harland and Wolff in Belfast; construction is delayed, and will be cancelled in 1929.
• The struggling Clogher Valley Railway taken over by a committee of management appointed by Tyrone and Fermanagh County Councils.^[1]
• Work starts on building the Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast, completed in 1933.
• Irish Linen Guild established.

• 19 February – Sam Cree, playwright (died 1980).
• 7 April – James White, science fiction novelist (died 1999).
• 18 April (in London) – Anne Dickson, Unionist Party of Northern Ireland MP.
• 17 June – Basil McIvor, Ulster Unionist politician (died 2004)
• 28 June – John Stewart Bell, physicist and originator of Bell's Theorem (died 1990).
• 25 July – Jimmy Jones, footballer (died 2014)
• 5 October – David Hammond, singer, filmmaker and broadcaster (died 2008).^[3]
• 30 October – Charles Brett, lawyer, journalist, author and founding member of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society (died 2005).^[4]
• 19 December – Eve Bunting, author.

• 19 November – Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron O'Neill, politician (born 1839)

• 1928 in Scotland
• 1928 in Wales