1st Viscount Craigavon James Craig 1st Viscount Craigavon, James Craig was the first Prime Minister of the new Northern Ireland from 1921 until the early stages of World War Two in 1940. Previous Next Remembering the Fallen James Mellon Rifleman Rifleman James Mellon of Co. Londonderry died on 29th October 1937 when Japanese forces bombed a Royal Ulster Rifles outpost in China.