1910 in Ireland
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See also: | 1910 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1910 List of years in Ireland |
Events from the year 1910 in Ireland.
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.
- May - Irish Countrywomen's Association founded as the Society of the United Irishwomen by a group of educated and largely Protestant women in Bree, County Wexford "to improve the standard of life in rural Ireland through Education and Co-operative effort".[1]
- June - Bridget Dowling elopes to London with Alois Hitler, Jr., a kitchen porter at the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, and half-brother to Adolf.
- August - First passenger flight in Ulster: Harry Ferguson pilots Miss Rita Marr.[2]
- 29 August - The Aero Club of Ireland holds its inaugural aviation meeting at Leopardstown Racecourse.
- 11 September - English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine makes an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea but lands some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay.[3][4]
- 20 October - RMS Olympic is launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. At 45,324 gross tons, she is the largest ship afloat. Her sister ship RMS Titanic will be launched in sixteen months' time.
- November - Reconstruction of the original city bridge over the River Suir in Waterford begins; it will be opened by John Redmond in 1913.[5]
- 3 December - Sir Edward Carson and James Campbell are re-elected unopposed as Unionist Members of Parliament for Trinity College Dublin.
- Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland created by merger of the Presbytery of Antrim and Remonstrant Synod of Ulster.[6]
- Lilian Bland builds and flies her own biplane glider, the first built in Ireland, from Carnmoney Hill, soon afterwards fitting an engine[7] and making her first powered flight in late August.
Arts and literature
- 13 January - Deirdre of the Sorrows by J. M. Synge (died 1909) is performed for the first time at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
- 5 May - Padraic Colum's play Thomas Muskerry is premiered at the Abbey Theatre.
- 7 May - Annie Horniman withdraws financial support from the Abbey Theatre in protest at its refusal to close on the death of Edward VII the previous day.
- August - The Kalem Company of New York begins shooting the first of several films partly on location in Ireland, A Lad from Old Ireland, with a filming location around Beaufort, County Kerry, with Canadian Irish director Sidney Olcott. This is the first production by an American film studio to be shot outside the United States.
- September - Lord Dunsany's short story collection A Dreamer's Tales is published.
- 3 November - Foundation of The Kilfenora Céilí Band in Kilfenora, County Clare, the oldest céilí band in Ireland.[8]
- Cork Public Museum opened.
- Terence MacSwiney's first play, The Last Warriors of Coole, is produced.
- Ella Young's first book of stories, Celtic Wonder Tales, is published with illustrations by Maud Gonne.
Sport
Football
- International
- Winners: Cliftonville
- Winners: Distillery 1 - 0 Cliftonville
Births
January to June
- 1 January - Charles Billingsley, cricketer (died 1951)
- 2 January - Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin, politician (died 1991)
- 6 January - James Christopher Branigan, aka "Lugs Brannigan", police detective and boxer (died 1986)
- 29 January - Colin Middleton, artist (died 1983)
- 10 April - Fintan Coogan, Snr, Fine Gael TD (died 1984)
- 13 April - Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist (died 1992).
- 9 May - Barbara Woodhouse, née Blackburn, dog trainer (died 1988)
- 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)
- 27 June - Nicholas Mansergh, historian (died 1991)
July to September
- 1 July - Dan Spring, Gaelic footballer, trade unionist and 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).
- 19 November - Manliff Barrington, motorcycle racer (died 1999).
- 26 November - Cyril Cusack, actor (died 1993).
- 29 November - Máirtín Ó Direáin, poet (died 1988).
- 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, Labour Party TD and Mayor of Limerick (died 1994).
Full date unknown
- Peter Kavanagh, soccer player (died 1993).
- Séamus Ó Néill, writer (died 1986).
Deaths
- 17 February - St. Clair Augustine Mulholland, American Civil War officer (born 1839).
- 6 May - Edward VII (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).
References
- ^ "The Beginnings". Dublin: Irish Countrywomen's Association. 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
- ^ "Airport History". George Best Belfast City Airport. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
- ^ "Loraine's Daring Flight". The Irish Times. Dublin. 12 September 1910. p. 7.
- ^ "Mr Loraine's Irish Channel Flight". Flight. 17 September 1910.
- ^ "Redmond Bridge". Ask about Ireland. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica 1926.
- ^ O'Connell, Claire (2009). "Flying in the Face of Convention". Engineers Journal. 63. Ireland: 81–2.
- ^ "Timeline". The Kilfenora Céilí Band. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
- ^ a b c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. pp. 160–161. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.