1914 in Ireland

Events

*17 January - Edward Carson inspects a parade of the East Belfast Regiment of the Ulster Volunteer Force.
*1 March - Three outbreaks of foot and mouth disease are confirmed in County Cork.
*9 March - The British Prime Minister proposes to allow the Ulster counties to hold a vote on whether or not to join a Home Rule parliament in Dublin.
*6 April - The second reading of the Home Rule Bill is carried in Westminster.
*25 April - 35,000 rifles and over 3 million rounds of ammunition are landed at Larne, Bangor and two other ports for the UVF (see Larne Gun Running). The equipment is quickly distributed around Ulster.
*23 June - The Government of Ireland Bill is introduced into the House of Lords. It allows Ulster counties to vote on whether or not they want to come under Dublin's jurisdiction. The wishes of Fermanagh and Tyrone are eventually ignored.
*10 July - The Provisional Government of Ulster meets for the first time in the Ulster Hall. It vows "to keep Ulster in trust" for the British Empire.
*21 July - A conference is opened at Buckingham Palace by the King. It is hoped that unionists and nationalists attending will break the impasse over Home Rule.
*24 July - The Buckingham Palace conference ends in failure. Nationalists and unionists present couldn't agree in principle or detail.
*26 July - Erskine Childers and his wife sail into Howth and land 2,500 guns for the Irish Volunteers.
*30 July - The Government of Ireland (Amendment) Bill is postponed indefinitely due to the worsening European situation.

Arts and literature

*James Joyce publishes his "Dubliners", a collection of 15 short stories depicting the Irish middle classes in and around Dublin during the early 20th century.

ports

Football

*International::19 January Wales 1 - 2 Ireland (in Wrexham)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 162|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::14 February England 0 - 3 Ireland (in Middlesbrough)::14 March Ireland 1 - 1 Scotland (in Belfast)

*Ireland win the British Home Championship football tournament outright for the first time.

*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Glentoran 3 - 1 Linfield

Births

*15 January - Sir James Flanagan, in Derry. The first and only Roman Catholic Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (d.1999).
*18 January - Patrick Lindsay, Fine Gael TD and lawyer (d.1993).
*23 February - Sheila Galvin, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1983).
*10 March - Michael Torrens-Spence, held commissions in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Air Force, the British Army, Ulster Special Constabulary and Ulster Defence Regiment (d.2001).
*28 May - William Blease, Baron Blease, trade unionist and politician (d.2008).
*19 June - Julia Clifford, fiddle player and traditional musician (d.1997).
*10 July - Charles Donnelly, poet, killed at the Jarama Front, Spanish Civil War (d.1937).
*30 July - Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, journalist, author, sports official and sixth president of the International Olympic Committee (d.1999).
*5 August - Charles Cuffe, cricketer (d.1972).
*10 September - Terence O'Neill, Fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d.1990).
*13 September - Michael F. Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1974).
*8 November - Jackie Brown, footballer.
*10 December - Séamus Dolan, Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann 1977–1981

Full date unknown

*Eamon Kelly, actor (d.2001).
*Aiden MacCarthy, doctor, RAF medical officer, captured by the Japanese during the Second World War (d.1992).
*John Mackey, Limerick hurler (d.1989).
*Eddie McAteer, Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) MP (d.1986).
*Sydney Sparkes Orr, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania (d.1966).

Deaths

*23 February - Thomas McCarthy Fennell, Fenian political prisoner transported to Western Australia (b.1841).
*4 March - William Hamilton, cricketer (b.1859).
*25 March - Robert James McMordie, solicitor, politician and Lord Mayor of Belfast (b.1849).
*31 March - Timothy Daniel Sullivan, journalist, politician and poet, wrote the Irish national hymn "God Save Ireland" (b.1827).
*19 May - Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer, killed at 1914 Isle of Man TT races (b.1876).
*23 June - Colonel John Burke, soldier in America (b.1838).
*12 August - John Philip Holland, engineer, developed the first Royal Navy submarine (b.1840).
*1 September - George Henry Morris, soldier, first commanding officer to lead an Irish Guards battalion into battle, killed in action (b.1872).
*15 October - Anthony Traill, provost of Trinity College Dublin (b.1838).
*2 November - Charles FitzClarence, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 near Mafeking, South Africa, killed in action (b.1865).
*22 December - John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer, lawyer and politician in Canada (b.1848).

Full date unknown

*Patrick Weston Joyce, historian and musicologist (b.1827).
*Thomas Kelly-Kenny, British Army general who served in the Second Boer War (b.1840).

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