1914 in Ireland

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Events

• 17 January - Edward Carson inspects a parade of the East Belfast Regiment of the Ulster Volunteers.
• 20 February - The Fethard-on-Sea life-boat capsizes on service off the County Wexford coast: nine crew are lost.
• 1 March - Three outbreaks of foot and mouth disease are confirmed in County Cork.
• 9 March - The British Prime Minister proposes to allow the Ulster counties to hold a vote on whether or not to join a Home Rule parliament in Dublin.
• 6 April - The second reading of the Home Rule Bill is carried in Westminster.
• 25 April - 35,000 rifles and over 3 million rounds of ammunition are landed at Larne, Bangor and two other ports for the UVF (see Larne Gun Running). The equipment is quickly distributed around Ulster.
• 23 June - The Government of Ireland Bill is introduced into the House of Lords. It allows Ulster counties to vote on whether or not they want to come under Dublin's jurisdiction. The wishes of Fermanagh and Tyrone are eventually ignored.
• 10 July - The Provisional Government of Ulster meets for the first time in the Ulster Hall. It vows "to keep Ulster in trust" for the British Empire.
• 21 July - A conference is opened at Buckingham Palace by the King. It is hoped that unionists and nationalists attending will break the impasse over Home Rule.
• 24 July - The Buckingham Palace conference ends in failure. Nationalists and Unionists present cannot agree in principle or detail.
• 26 July - Howth gun-running: Erskine Childers and his wife Molly sail into Howth in his yacht Asgard and land 2,500 guns for the Irish Volunteers.
• 30 July - The Government of Ireland (Amendment) Bill is postponed indefinitely due to the worsening European situation.

Arts and literature

• February - James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man commences serialization in The Egoist (London).
• June - James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of fifteen short stories depicting the Irish middle classes in and around Dublin during the early 20th century, is published in London.

Sports

Football

• International

19 January Wales 1 - 2 Ireland (in Wrexham)

14 February England 0 - 3 Ireland (in Middlesbrough)

14 March Ireland 1 - 1 Scotland (in Belfast)

• Ireland win the British Home Championship football tournament outright for the first time.

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Glentoran 3 - 1 Linfield

Births

• 15 January - Sir James Flanagan, in Derry. The only Roman Catholic Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (died 1999).
• 18 January - Patrick Lindsay, Fine Gael TD and lawyer (died 1993).
• 23 February - Sheila Galvin, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1983).
• 10 March - Michael Torrens-Spence, held commissions in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Air Force, the British Army, Ulster Special Constabulary and Ulster Defence Regiment (died 2001).
• 28 May - William Blease, Baron Blease, trade unionist and politician (died 2008).
• 19 June - Julia Clifford, fiddle player and traditional musician (died 1997).
• 10 July - Charles Donnelly, poet, killed at the Jarama Front, Spanish Civil War (died 1937).
• 30 July - Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, journalist, author, sports official and sixth president of the International Olympic Committee (died 1999).
• 5 August - Charles Cuffe, cricketer (died 1972).
• 10 September - Terence O'Neill, Fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (died 1990).
• 13 September - Michael F. Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1974).
• 8 November - Jackie Brown, footballer (died 1990).
• 10 December - Séamus Dolan, Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann 1977–1981 (died 2010).

Full date unknown

• Eamon Kelly, actor (died 2001).
• Aiden MacCarthy, doctor, RAF medical officer, captured by the Japanese during the Second World War (died 1992).
• John Mackey, Limerick hurler (died 1989).
• Eddie McAteer, Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) MP (died 1986).
• Sydney Sparkes Orr, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania (died 1966).

Deaths

• 23 February - Thomas McCarthy Fennell, Fenian political prisoner transported to Western Australia (born 1841).
• 4 March - William Hamilton, cricketer (born 1859).
• 25 March - Robert James McMordie, solicitor, politician and Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1849).
• 31 March - Timothy Daniel Sullivan, journalist, politician and poet, wrote the Irish national hymn God Save Ireland (born 1827).
• 19 May - Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer, killed at 1914 Isle of Man TT races (born 1876).
• 23 June - Colonel John Burke, soldier in America (born 1838).
• 12 August - John Philip Holland, engineer, developed the first Royal Navy submarine (born 1840).
• 1 September - George Henry Morris, soldier, first commanding officer to lead an Irish Guards battalion into battle, killed in action (born 1872).
• 15 October - Anthony Traill, provost of Trinity College Dublin (born 1838).
• 2 November - Charles FitzClarence, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 near Mafeking, South Africa, killed in action (born 1865).
• 22 December - John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer, lawyer and politician in Canada (born 1848).

Full date unknown

• Patrick Weston Joyce, historian and musicologist (born 1827).
• Thomas Kelly-Kenny, British Army general who served in the Second Boer War (born 1840).