1910 in Ireland

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Events

• 8 January - Sinéad Flanagan marries Éamon de Valera in Dublin.
• 21 February - Irish Unionist members of the Westminster Parliament elect Sir Edward Carson as party leader, replacing Walter Long.
• 23 February - St Patrick's College, Maynooth, becomes a recognised college of the National University of Ireland.
• 29 August - The Aero Club of Ireland holds its inaugural aviation meeting at Leopardstown Racecourse.
• 20 October - RMS Olympic is launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. At 45,324 gross tons, it is the largest ship afloat. Its sister ship RMS Titanic will be launched in sixteen months' time.
• 3 December - Sir Edward Carson and James Campbell are re-elected unopposed as Unionist Members of Parliament for Trinity College Dublin.
• Irish Countrywomen's Association founded.
• Redmond Bridge replaces the original city bridge in Waterford.
• Lilian Bland builds and flies her own glider, the first biplane built in Ireland, from Carnmoney Hill, soon afterwards fitting an engine.

Arts and literature

• 13 January - Deirdre of the Sorrows by J. M. Synge is performed for the first time at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
• 7 May - Anne Horniman withdraws financial support from the Abbey Theatre in protest at its refusal to close on the death of King Edward VII the previous day.

Sport

Football

• International

12 February Ireland 1 - 1 England (in Belfast)

19 March Ireland 1 - 0 Scotland (in Belfast)

11 April Wales 4 - 1 Ireland (in Wrexham)

• Irish League

Winners: Cliftonville

• Irish Cup

Winners: Distillery 1 - 0 Cliftonville

Births

January to June

• 1 January - Charles Billingsley, cricketer (died 1951)
• 29 January - Colin Middleton, artist (died 1983)
• 10 April - Fintan Coogan, Snr, Fine Gael TD (died 1984)
• 20 May - Johnny Callanan, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1982)
• 5 June - Ham Lambert, cricketer and rugby player (died 2006)
• 12 June - Bill Naughton, playwright and author (died 1992)

July to September

• 1 July - Dan Spring, Gaelic footballer, trade unionist and Irish Labour Party TD (died 1988).
• 4 July - George Otto Simms, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Archbishop of Armagh (died 1991).
• 1 August - Cathal Gannon, harpsichord maker and fortepiano restorer (died 1999).
• 8 August - Bobby Kirk, ice hockey player (died 1970).
• 14 August - Eddie Ingram, cricketer (died 1973).
• 24 September - Robert Alexander (Irish sportsman) (died 1943).

October to December

• 1 November - Michael Lyons, Fine Gael TD and Senator (died 1991).
• 15 November - Geoffrey Toone, actor (died 2005).
• 26 November - Cyril Cusack, actor (died 1993).
• 10 December - Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director of The Irish Press, Fianna Fáil TD representing Dublin North–West (died 1982).
• 22 December - James Boucher, cricketer (died 1995).
• 26 December - Stephen Coughlan, Irish Labour Party TD and Mayor of Limerick (died 1994).

Full date unknown

• Manliff Barrington, motorcycle racer (died 1999).
• Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist (died 1992).
• Peter Kavanagh, soccer player (died 1993).
• Paddy Moore, soccer player (died 1951).
• Máirtín Ó Direáin, poet (died 1988).
• Séamus Ó Néill, writer (died 1986).

Deaths

• 17 February - St. Clair Augustine Mulholland, American Civil War officer (born 1839).
• 6 May - Edward VII of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1841)
• 30 August - Hedges Eyre Chatterton, Conservative Party MP and Vice-Chancellor of Ireland (born 1819).
• 30 August - George Throssell, second Premier of Western Australia (born 1840).