1897 in Ireland

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See also:	1897 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1897 List of years in Ireland

Events

• The Irish Motor Car and Cycle Company is established.

Arts and literature

• Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, is published for the first time.
• Amanda McKittrick Ros publishes Irene Iddesleigh.

Sport

Football

• International

20 February England 6 - 0 Ireland (in Nottingham)

6 March Ireland 4 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)

27 March Scotland 5 - 1 Ireland (in Glasgow)

• Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

• Irish Cup

Winners: Cliftonville 3 - 1 Sherwood Foresters

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Births

• 1 March - Robert Bowers, cricketer (d.1956).
• 23 March - John Lighton Synge, mathematician and physicist (d.1995).
• 4 April - Francis Evans, British diplomat (d.1983).
• 26 May - Ernie O'Malley, prominent officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and on anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and a writer (d.1957).
• 10 June - Moss (Maurice) Twomey, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (d.1978).
• 1 July - Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence (d.1980).
• 1 September - Andy Kennedy, footballer (d.1963).
• 26 November - Thomas Derrig, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1956).
• 3 December - Kate O'Brien, novelist (d.1974).

Full date unknown

• Eddie Doyle, Kilkenny hurler (d.1948).
• Bob Fullam, soccer player (d.1974).
• Mainie Jellett, painter (d.1944).
• Maurice Moore, Irish republican who fought in the Irish War of Independence, executed (d.1921).
• Seán Óg Murphy, Cork hurler, Gaelic Athletic Association administrator (d.1965).
• Ed Reavy, fiddle player and songwriter (d.1988).
• Enid Starkie, literary critic and biographer (d.1970).

Deaths

• 21 January - Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (b.1816).
• 24 January - Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, novelist (b.1855).
• 3 March - Garrett Byrne, Irish nationalist and MP (b.1829).
• 19 March - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, geographer (b.1810).
• 1 April - William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin (b.1828).
• 11 October - Charles W. Jones, lawyer and United States Senator in Florida (b.1834).
• 31 October - Samuel Haughton, scientific writer (b.1821).
• 25 November - John Coleman, United States Marine, recipient of Medal of Honor for his actions in 1871 during the Korean Expedition (b.1847).
• 8 December - Mary O'Connell, nurse during the American Civil War (b.1814).

Full date unknown

• William R. Roberts, diplomat, Fenian Society member and United States Representative from New York (b.1830).