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Events
- 26 April - King Edward VII and his Queen arrive in Kingstown. The royal couple attend the Punchestown Races for the day.
- 2 May - The King and Queen travel to Waterford where they stay at Lismore Castle, the home of the Duke of Devonshire.
- 2 June - St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast nave is consecrated.
- Construction of Government Buildings, Merrion Street starts (finishes 1922)
Arts and literature
- 16 June - Bloomsday: James Joyce meets Nora Barnacle on this day and later sets his novel Ulysses on this day.
- 27 December - The Irish National Theatre Society (Abbey Theatre) opens to the public for the first time. They witness a play by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.
- James Joyce's Eveline was first published.
- Arthur Griffith's The Resurrection of Hungary was published.
Sport
Football
- International
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- Winners: Linfield
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- Winners: Linfield 5 - 1 Derry Celtic
- Shelbourne becomes the second Dublin team to join the Irish Football League, after Bohemians, who joined the previous year.
Births
January to June
- 16 January - Frederick Boland, diplomat, first Irish ambassador to Britain and to the United Nations (d.1985).
- 26 January - Seán MacBride, former Clann na Poblachta TD, Cabinet Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Winner (d.1988).
- 19 February - Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, writer (d.1950).
- 29 February - James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn, soldier and politician (d.1979).
- 7 March - Jim Ganly, cricketer and rugby player (d.1976).
- 27 April - Cecil Day-Lewis, poet and writer, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, (d.1972).
- 7 May - David Sullivan, labour leader in USA (d.1976).
- 5 June - Derrick Kennedy, cricketer (d.1976).
July to December
- 9 September - Jack Lawrence, cricketer (d.1984).
- 2 October - Dermot Boyle, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (d.1993).
- 21 October - Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist (d.1967).
- 13 December - William McCrea, astronomer and mathematician (d.1999).
Full date unknown
- Dinny Barry-Murphy, Cork hurler (d.1973).
- Molly Keane, novelist and playwright (d.1996).
- Michael MacLaverty, novelist (d.1992).
- John "Pondoro" Taylor, hunter and writer (d.1969).
Deaths
- 22 January - George Salmon, mathematician and theologian (b.1819).
- 21 March - William Russell Grace, businessman and first Roman Catholic mayor of New York (b.1832).
- 5 April - Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (b.1822).
- 25 May - Richard Harte Keatinge, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Chundairee, India (b.1825).
- 20 October - Richard Phelan, fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b.1828).
- 16 November - James Cooney, lawyer and Democratic politician in Missouri (b.1848).
Full date unknown
- Timothy J. Campbell, Democrat U.S. Representative from New York (b.1840).
- Edwin Hayes, watercolourist (b.1819).
References
- ^ a b c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 158. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.
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