[1] It also invited the Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA), which declined in order to concentrate on the 1932 Olympics.

[2] The NACA executive decided to accept, on condition that the team be designated "Ireland" rather than "Irish Free State".

[3] The NACA's attendance of the games proved to be controversial among some of its members who held Irish nationalist views.

[4][5] The NACA made a shortlist of athletes whom it would fund for the trip to Canada if they could secure the necessary time off work.

[6] The English AAA offered to pay the expenses of hammer thrower Bill Britton on condition that he and Pat O'Callaghan take part in a British Empire athletics team to compete in a challenge match against the United States immediately after the Empire Games.

[9] The flag was not the Irish tricolour, considered by unionists as specific to the Free State; instead it showed the coat of arms of Ireland, a gold harp.

[28] An AAA meeting preparatory to the games reported Northern Ireland among the teams to be represented, but not the Irish Free State.

[29] Paddy Bermingham, a Garda from County Clare,[30] was entered in the discus but did not compete,[31] although he won the English AAA title the previous month at the same White City Stadium which hosted the Games.

[41] They were: Larry Scally (flyweight),[42] T. Byrne (bantamweight), Jack Kennedy (welterweight), and Jimmy Magill (middleweight).