1918 in Ireland

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Events

• January 18 - Count Plunkett, Seán T. O'Kelly and others protest at the forcible feeding of Sinn Féin prisoners in Mountjoy Prison.
• March 2 - In Skibbereen, County Cork Ernest Blythe is arrested for non-compliance with a military rule directing him to reside in Ulster.
• March 6 - In the British House of Commons, tributes are paid to John Redmond, Irish Nationalist leader, who has died in London.
• April 18 - The Military Service Bill, which includes conscription in Ireland, becomes law. A conference of nationalist parties, Sinn Féin and labour movements meets in Dublin to organise an all-Ireland opposition to conscription.
• April 20 - The Irish Parliamentary Party holds a meeting in Dublin to oppose conscription.
• May 5–15,000 people attend an anti-conscription meeting in County Roscommon. John Dillon, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party and Éamon de Valera of Sinn Féin share the platform in a united cause.
• May 20 - A special anti-conscription convention is held in Dublin. It condemns the deportations of many Sinn Féin members.
• July 3 - The Lord-Lieutenant issues a proclamation banning Sinn Féin, the Irish Volunteers, the Gaelic League and Cumann na mBan.
• July 17 - RMS Carpathia is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland by German submarine U-55; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.
• October 10 - The Irish mail boat RMS Leinster is sunk by a German submarine with the loss of 500 lives.
• November 11 - At 5.00am an armistice dictated by the Allies is signed by the Germans. Six hours later World War I officially ends. A total of 140,000 Irishmen were killed during the war.
• December 22 - Ireland voices a united invitation to US President Woodrow Wilson to visit.
• December 28 - Sinn Féin have a landslide victory in the general election, winning 73 of the 105 seats in Ireland. The Irish Parliamentary Party is nearly wiped out.
• December 30 - The Irish Independent strongly criticises Countess Markievicz, the first female Member of Parliament elected to Westminster.

Arts and literature

• March - The Telemachus episode of James Joyce's Ulysses is published (in serialised form) in the American journal The Little Review.
• May 25 - James Joyce's Exiles: a play in three acts is published in London.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Belfast Celtic 0 - 0, 0 - 0, 2 - 0 Linfield

Births

January to June

• 23 January - Charlie Kerins, Chief of Staff of the IRA, convicted of murder of Garda Siochána officer and hanged (died 1944).
• 26 January - Louis Jacobson, cricketer.
• 7 February - Markey Robinson, artist (died 1999).
• 14 February - Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, former Ceann Comhairle and Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (died 2006).
• 5 March - Denis J. O'Sullivan, Fine Gael TD (died 1987).
• 17 March - Frederick Blaney, cricketer (died 1988).
• 12 March - Pádraig Faulkner, former Fianna Fáil TD for Louth and Cabinet Minister.
• 16 April - Spike Milligan, comedian, poet and writer (died 2002).
• 22 May - Alan Clodd, book collector, dealer and publisher (died 2002).
• 27 June - Marie Kean, actress (died 1993).

July to December

• 7 August - Florrie Burke, soccer player (died 1995).
• 9 August - Luke Belton, Fine Gael TD (died 2006).
• 12 September - Valerie Goulding, Senator and campaigner for the disabled (died 2003).
• 17 September - Chaim Herzog, Belfast-born sixth President of Israel (1983–1993) (died 1997).
• 26 September - Jackie Vernon, footballer (died 1981).
• 29 September - Douglas Gageby, journalist and newspaper editor (died 2004).
• 13 October - Jack MacGowran, actor (died 1973).
• October - Hugh McLaughlin, publisher and inventor (died 2006).
• 19 November - Brendan Corish, Irish Labour Party leader, TD, Cabinet Minister and Tánaiste (died 1990).
• 24 December - Willie Clancy, uileann piper (died 1973).

Full date unknown

• Valentin Iremonger, poet and diplomat (died 1991).
• Jim Langton, former Kilkenny hurler (died 1987).
• Terry Leahy, Kilkenny hurler (died 1988).
• Jimmy Phelan, Kilkenny hurler (died 2006).
• A. J. Potter, composer (died 1980).
• James Young, comedian (died 1974).

Deaths

January to June

• 23 January - Robert Gregory, cricketer and artist (born 1881).
• 1 February - William Melville, police officer and first chief of the British Secret Service (born 1850).
• 13 February - Henry Arthur Blake, British colonial administrator and Governor of Hong Kong (born 1840).
• 27 March - Martin Sheridan, Olympic gold medallist for the United States (born 1881).
• 28 March - Arthur Bateman, cricketer (born 1890).
• 8 April - David Nelson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1914 at Néry, France (born 1886).
• 18 April - Samuel Young, 96 year old MP for East Cavan
• 7 May - James Somers, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 at Gallipoli, Turkey (born 1884).
• 10 June - William Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse, soldier (born 1873).

July to December

• 19 July - William McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim, peer (born 1851).
• 26 July - Edward Mannock, First World War flying ace and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1887).
• 31 July - George McElroy, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force pilot during World War I, killed in action (born 1893).
• 18 September - Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1918 on the Drocourt-Queant Line, France (born 1892).
• 25 September - John Ireland, third Bishop and first Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota (born 1838).
• 1 October - Martin Joseph Sheehan, soldier and Royal Air Service Observer in World War I, killed in action (born 1896).
• 14 October - Louis Lipsett, British Army and Canadian Expeditionary Force senior officer during the First World War, killed in action (born 1874).

Full date unknown

• Dora Sigerson Shorter, poet (born 1866).