[edit] Events [edit] Arts and literature -
- 13 February England 4 - 0 Ireland (in Bradford)[1]
- 15 March Scotland 5 - 0 Ireland (in Glasgow)[1]
- 20 March Ireland 2 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)[1]
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- Winners: Linfield
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- Winners: Cliftonville 0 - 0, 2 - 1 Bohemians
[edit] 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).
[edit] Full date unknown - James Auchmuty, historian (d.1981)
- Muriel Brandt, artist (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).
[edit] 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).
[edit] Full date unknown [edit] References - ^ a b c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.
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