1897 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1897 in Ireland.

Events

26 May - Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is first published, in London.
13 December - The third Theatre Royal opens in Dublin.
The first Feis Ceoil musical and cultural festival is organised in Dublin by Dr. Annie Patterson, Edward Martyn and Dr. George Sigerson.^[1]
George Sigerson's translated anthology Bards of the Gael and Gall^[2] and his daughter Dora Sigerson Shorter's The Fairy Changeling, and Other Poems are published.^[3]
Amanda McKittrick Ros publishes Irene Iddesleigh.

20 February England 6 - 0 Ireland (in Nottingham)^[4]

6 March Ireland 4 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)^[4]

27 March Scotland 5 - 1 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[4]

Winners: Glentoran

Winners: Cliftonville 3 - 1 Sherwood Foresters

1 March - Robert Bowers, cricketer (died 1956).
23 March - John Lighton Synge, mathematician and physicist (died 1995).
4 April - Francis Evans, British diplomat (died 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 (died 1957).
10 June - Moss (Maurice) Twomey, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (died 1978).
1 July - Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence (died 1980).
18 August - Enid Starkie, literary critic and biographer (died 1970).
1 September - Andy Kennedy, footballer (died 1963).
26 November - Thomas Derrig, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1956).
3 December - Kate O'Brien, novelist (died 1974).

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

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

^ McGilloway, Ken (2011). George Sigerson: Poet, Patriot Scientist and Scholar. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation. ISBN 9781903688212.
^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F. et al., ed. (1993). "Irish Poetry – Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic". In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press; MJF Books. p. 633.
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 155. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.