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Events

• 8 January - Sinéad Flanagan marries Éamon de Valera in Dublin.
• 21 February - Irish Unionist MPs at Westminster elect Sir Edward Carson as party leader, replacing Walter Long.
• 23 February - St Patrick's College, Maynooth becomes a recognised college of the National University of Ireland.
• 29 August - The Aero Club of Ireland holds its inaugural aviation meeting at Leopardstown Racecourse.
• 3 December - Edward Carson and James Campbell are re-elected unopposed as Unionist representatives for Trinity College Dublin.
• (full date unknown) Irish Countrywomen's Association founded.

Arts and literature

• 13 January - 'Deirdre of the Sorrows' by John Millington Synge is performed for the first time at the Abbey Theatre.
• 7 May - Anne Horniman withdraws financial support from the Abbey Theatre, in protest because the Theatre refused to close on the death of King Edward VII, who had died the previous day.

Sport

Football

• International

12 February Ireland 1 - 1 England (in Belfast)¹

19 March Ireland 1 - 0 Scotland (in Belfast)¹

11 April Wales 4 - 1 Ireland (in Wrexham)¹

• Irish League

Winners: Cliftonville

`*Irish Cup

Winners: Distillery 1 - 0 Cliftonville

Births

January to June

• 1 January - Charles Billingsley, cricketer (d.1951).
• 29 January - Colin Middleton, artist (d.1983).
• 20 May - Johnny Callanan, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1982).
• 5 June - Ham Lambert, cricketer and rugby player (d.2006).
• 12 June - Bill Naughton, playwright and author (d.1992).

July to September

• 1 July - Dan Spring, Gaelic footballer, trade unionist and Irish Labour Party TD (d.1988).
• 4 July - George Otto Simms, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Archbishop of Armagh (d.1991).
• 1 August - Cathal Gannon, harpsichord maker and fortepiano restorer (d.1999).
• 8 August - Bobby Kirk, ice hockey player (d.1970).
• 14 August - Eddie Ingram, cricketer (d.1973).
• 24 September - Robert Alexander (Irish sportsman) (d.1943).

October to December

• 1 November - Michael Lyons, Fine Gael TD and Senator (d.1991).
• 15 November - Geoffrey Toone, actor (d.2005).
• 26 November - Cyril Cusack, actor (d.1993).
• 10 December - Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director of The Irish Press, Fianna Fáil TD representing Dublin North West (d.1982).
• 22 December - James Boucher, cricketer (d.1995).
• 26 December - Stephen Coughlan, Irish Labour Party TD and Mayor of Limerick (d.1994).

Full date unknown

• Manliff Barrington, motorcycle racer (d.1999).
• Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist (d.1992).
• Peter Kavanagh, soccer player (d.1993).
• Paddy Moore, soccer player (d.1951).
• Máirtín Ó Direáin, poet (d.1988).
• Séamus Ó Néill, writer (d.1986).

Deaths

• 17 February - St. Clair Augustine Mulholland, American Civil War officer (b.1839).
• 6 May - Edward VII of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (b. 1841)
• 30 August - Hedges Eyre Chatterton, Conservative Party MP and Vice-Chancellor of Ireland (b.1819).
• 30 August - George Throssell, second Premier of Western Australia (b.1840).

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