Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 6 References

[edit] Events

• January 7 - Waterford Corporation passes a motion to confer the freedom of the city on John Redmond.
• January 8 - The Great National Convention takes place in the Round Room of the Rotunda in Dublin. Motions are passed regarding coercion, the Irish language and evicted tenants.
• April 2 - John Redmond is awarded the freedom of Dublin.
• June 2 - The centenary of the Christian Brothers is celebrated with High Mass in the Pro-Cathedral on Chicago.
• July 22 - Archbishop Thomas Croke dies at the age of 78. He was the first patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association and was a supporter of the Gaelic League and the Land League.
• Dunraven land conference starts.^[1]

[edit] Arts and literature

• Irish Literary Theatre becomes Irish National Theatre Society.^[1]

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• International

22 February Wales 0 - 3 Ireland (in Cardiff)^[2]

1 March Ireland 1 - 5 Scotland (in Belfast)^[2]

22 March Ireland 0 - 1 England (in Belfast)^[2]

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 5 - 0 Distillery

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 2 January - Dan Keating, Ireland's oldest man and last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence (d.2007).
• 13 January - Francis Connell, cricketer (d.1983).
• 20 January - Kevin Barry, executed for his part in an Irish Republican Army operation resulting in the deaths of three British soldiers (d.1920).
• 25 April Cormac Breslin, Fianna Fáil TD and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (d.1978).

[edit] July to December

• 20 July - Jimmy Kennedy, songwriter (d.1984).
• 21 July - William Bernard Barry, politician in the United States (d.1946).
• 16 August - Arthur Douglas, cricketer and rugby player (d.1937).
• 4 September - Patrick Lenihan, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1970).
• 16 September - James Dillon, former leader of Fine Gael, TD and Minister (d.1986).
• 16 December - Billy King, cricketer (d.1987).
• 29 December - Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford, politician, dramatist and poet (d.1961).
• December - Maurice Gerard Moynihan, civil servant and writer (d.1999).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Thekla Beere, civil servant (d.1991).
• Maurice Gorham, journalist and broadcasting executive (d.1975).
• Jim Hurley, veteran of the Irish War of Independence, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler (d.1965).
• Patrick MacDonogh, poet (d.1961).
• Frank Ryan, member of the Irish Republican Army, editor of An Phoblacht, leftist activist and leader of Irish volunteers on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War (d.1944).
• Francis Stuart, writer (d.2000).

[edit] Deaths

• 20 January - Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic (b.1814).
• 10 March - C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia (b.1843).
• 21 April - Ethna Carbery, writer and poet (b.1866).
• 20 July - John William Mackay, businessman in America (b.1831).
• 22 July - Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association (b.1824).
• 23 December - Lucius Gwynn, cricketer (b.1873).

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• John O'Hart, genealogist (b.1824).
• Edward Harrington (b. c.1852), Member of Parliament (MP) for West Kerry 1885–1892

[edit] References