1909 in Ireland

1909 in Ireland

Events

*31 October - The Royal University of Ireland is dissolved.
*14 December - In the large hall of the National University in Dublin, Ernest Shackleton delivers a lecture entitled 'Nearest the South Pole.'
*31 December - Harry Ferguson becomes the first person to fly in Ireland, when he takes off in a monoplane he had designed and built himself.
*Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast is officially recognised as a university teaching hospital.

Arts and literature

*24 March - John Millington Synge, author and playwright, dies in Dublin aged 38.
*20 August - The famous tenor, Enrico Caruso, performs at the Theatre Royal in Dublin.

port

Football

*International::13 February England 4 - 0 Ireland (in Bradford)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 1|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::15 March Scotland 5 - 0 Ireland (in Glasgow)::20 March Ireland 2 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)

*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Cliftonville 0 - 0, 2 - 1 Bohemians

Births

*9 January - Patrick Peyton, the Rosary Priest (d.1992).
*30 January - George Crothers, cricketer (d.1982).
*1 February - Timothy McAuliffe, Labour Party politician (d.1985).
*3 April - Knox Cunningham, barrister, businessman and Ulster Unionist politician (d.1976).
*19 April - Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer (d.1974).
*30 April - F. E. McWilliam, sculptor (d.1992).
*24 July - Geoffrey Bing, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (d.1977).
*7 October - Michael O'Neill, nationalist politician and MP (d.1976).
*20 October - James Patrick Scully, awarded George Cross for valour in 1941 in Liverpool in rescuing people from a bomb damaged building.
*28 October - Francis Bacon, painter (d.1992).
*4 November - Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, cricketer, squash player and art collector (d.1982).

Full date unknown

*James Auchmuty, historian (d.1981).
*Robert Dudley Edwards, historian (d.1988).
*Jack Stanley Gibson, surgeon and writer (d.2005).
*Gabriel Hayes, sculptor, designer of Irish coins (d.1978).
*Francis MacManus, novelist (d.1965).
*David Beers Quinn, historian (d.2002).
*W. R. Rodgers, poet and writer (d.1969).
*Cecilia Thackaberry, Presentation Sisters nun, killed in Nigeria performing relief work (d.1969).

Deaths

*4 February - James Lynam Molloy, poet, songwriter and composer (b.c1837).
*24 March - William Lundon, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (b.1839).
*24 March - John Millington Synge, dramatist, poet and writer (b.1871).
*4 April - Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet (b.1833).
*22 May - Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet, Liberal Party MP (b.1839).
*15 July - George Tyrrell, expelled Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (d.1861).
*1 December - William Joseph Corbet, nationalist politician and MP (b.1824).

Full date unknown

*Bishop Richard Owens, Bishop of Clogher 1894-1909 (b.1840).

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