1900 in Ireland

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Events

• January 16 — Three lion cubs reared by an Irish red setter go on view at Dublin Zoo.
• January 17 — The different sections of the Nationalist Party meet in the Dublin Mansion House's Oak Room to promote national unity.
• February 28 — Unofficial figures show that the Dublin Fusiliers suffered the most in the Second Boer War.
• March 12 — The 45th Company of the Imperial Yeomanry leave Dublin for service in South Africa.
• March 17 — In celebration of Saint Patrick's Day, the Lord Lieutenant (Earl Cadogan), accompanied by his staff, reviews a military display in the yard of Dublin Castle, followed by dinner and a ball in Saint Patrick's Hall that evening.
• April 1 — The Irish Guards regiment of the British Army is formed by order of Queen Victoria to honour the Irish troops fighting in the Boer War for the British Empire.
• April 4 — Queen Victoria arrives at Kingstown and travels to Dublin where she is greeted by the Lord Mayor and members of the Corporation.
• April 7 — 52,000 children greet Queen Victoria at the Phoenix Park in Dublin.
• April 23 — At a meeting in Loughrea, Douglas Hyde complains of the rapid Anglicisation of the country and the loss of the Irish language.
• May 11 — Edward Carson becomes Solicitor General for England and Wales and is knighted.
• May 13 — The rift in the Irish Parliamentary Party is healed as John Dillon and John Redmond share a platform for the first time in ten years.
• July 5 — The British War Office issues a list of Irish prisoners from the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers. It names 473 men from eight companies.
• November 30 — Oscar Wilde, dramatist and wit, dies in poverty in Paris aged 46.
• December 31 — Ceremonies all over the country mark the closing of the 19th century and the dawning of the 20th.

Sport

Football

• International

24 February Wales 2–0 Ireland (in Llandudno)

3 March Ireland 0–2 Scotland (in Belfast)

17 March Ireland 0–2 England (in Dublin: the first International match played here)

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Cliftonville 2–1 Bohemians

• Derry Celtic is founded and joins the Irish Football League.

Births

January to June

• 10 January — Harry Kernoff, artist (d.1974).
• 19 January — Frank Devlin, badminton player (d.1988).
• January — Michael Donnellan, founder of Clann na Talmhan and TD (d.1964).
• 22 February — Sean O'Faolain, short story writer (d.1991).
• 27 February — James Ennis, cricketer (d.1976).
• 6 March — Mark Deering, Fine Gael TD (d.1972).
• 25 May — John Hunt, expert on mediaeval art.

July to December

• 10 July — Paul Carroll, playwright.
• 17 July — Paddy Smith, Fianna Fáil TD and longest-serving member of Dáil Éireann (54 years) (d.1982).
• 22 July — Michael Davern, Fianna Fáil TD for Tipperary South 1948–1965. (d.1973)
• 2 October — Hubert Butler, writer and historian (d.1991).
• 18 October — Sarah Makem, traditional singer (d.1983).
• 23 October — Paddy Ahern, Cork hurler (d.1971).
• 19 November — Pamela Hinkson, writer (d.1982).
• 4 December — Tom Farquharson, soccer player (d.1970).
• 23 December — Noel Purcell, actor (d.1985).

Full date unknown

• William Robert Fitzgerald Collis, physician and writer (d.1975).
• Eudie Coughlan, Cork hurler (d.1987).
• Peter Kerley, radiologist (d.1978).
• Seosamh Mac Grianna, writer (d.1990).
• William Norton, Labour Party (Ireland) leader, TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1963).
• Frank Ryan, tenor (d.1965).

Deaths

• 19 January — William Larminie, poet and folklorist (b.1849).
• 23 January — Abraham Boulger, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (b.1835).
• 23 January — James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (b.1822).
• 16 March — Frederick William Burton, painter (b.1816).
• 22 March — Thomas Murphy, recipient of the Victoria Cross for bravery at sea in saving life in a storm off the Andaman Islands in 1867 (b.1839).
• 27 April — John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada (b.1816).
• 12 November — Marcus Daly, businessman in America (b.1841).
• 30 November -Oscar Wilde, playwright, novelist, poet (b.1854).
• 14 December — Paddy Ryan, boxer (b. 1851).

Full date unknown

• Thomas Preston, scientist (b.1860)
• Thomas Workman, entomologist and arachnologist (b.1844)