1907 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1907 in Ireland.

Events

• 2 January – a new system of rail cars running from Dublin Amiens Street station to Howth is introduced.
• 5 January – the first motor show under the auspices of the Irish Automobile Club opens at the Royal Dublin Society.
• 6 January – the Sunday provisions of the new Licensing Act come into operation in Dublin and four other cities. Sunday opening hours will be from 2pm to 5pm.
• 26 January – the first performance of J. M. Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin triggers a week of rioting.
• 4 May – the Irish International Exhibition opens in Dublin.
• 7 May – Augustine Birrell introduces the Irish Council Bill, rejected by a Nationalist convention on 21 May and dropped by the government on 3 June.
• 6 July – the Crown Jewels of Ireland, valued at £50,000, are stolen from the safe in Dublin Castle.
• 10–11 July - state visit of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to visit the Irish International Exhibition in Dublin.
• 26 July – a large rally is held in Belfast City Hall in support of the ongoing Dockers and Carters Strike.
• 4 September – an Irish Parliamentary Party meeting in the Mansion House, Dublin is disrupted by Sinn Féin who hold a demonstration outside.
• 17 October – the Marconi transatlantic wireless telegraphy service between Galway and Canada is opened. Messages are exchanged without a hitch.
• 9 November – the Irish International Exhibition ends after six months. An estimated 2.75 million people visited it, including a large number from abroad.
• November – Tom Clarke (Irish republican) returns from the United States to Ireland.

Arts and literature

• Early – 7-year-old Elizabeth Bowen moves with her mother from Ireland to the south of England.
• 26 January – large sections of the audience boo the opening performance of J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre.
• 28 January – another performance of The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre is interrupted by the audience who continue to boo, hiss and shout.
• 4 February – in a public debate at the Abbey Theatre, the poet W. B. Yeats denies trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of The Playboy of the Western World.
• May – publication of James Joyce's poems Chamber Music.
• Publication of Padraic Colum's poems Wild Earth.
• Peadar Kearney and Patrick Heeney write A Soldier's Song (with English language lyrics); it will become Amhrán na bhFiann, the national anthem of the Republic of Ireland.
• Publication of County Cork-born retired Chicago chief of police Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland.

Sport

Football

• International

  16 February England 1–0 Ireland (in Liverpool)

  23 February Ireland 2–3 Wales (in Belfast)

  16 March Scotland 3–0 Ireland (in Glasgow)

• Irish League

  Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

  Winners: Cliftonville 0–0, 1–0 Shelbourne

Golf

• British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: May Hezlet).

Births

• 21 February – Colville Deverell, cricketer and politician (died 1995).
• 1 March – Robert Malachy Burke, Christian Socialist and philanthropist (died 1998).
• 15 May – John Galvin, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1963).
• 1 June – Helen Megaw, crystallographer (died 2002).
• 2 June – Dan O'Keeffe, Kerry Gaelic footballer (died 1967).
• 29 June – Paul O'Dwyer, lawyer and politician in the United States (died 1998).
• 13 July – John David Gwynn, cricketer (died 1998).
• 15 July – Seamus Murphy, sculptor (died 1975).
• 14 August – H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist MP (died 1989).
• 14 September
  • Janet McNeill, novelist and playwright (died 1994 in England)
  • Edel Quinn, lay missionary (died 1944).
• 8 October – J. G. Devlin, actor (died 1991).
• 28 October – John Hewitt, poet (died 1987).
• 1 November – Bill Loughery, cricketer (died 1977).
• 26 November – Theodore William Moody, historian (died 1984).
• 19 December – Jimmy McLarnin, boxer (died 2004).

  Full date unknown

  • Desmond Clarke, librarian and writer (died 1979).
  • Maura Laverty, writer (died 1966).
  • Áine Ní Cheanainn, educationalist (died 1999)
  • Margot Ruddock, actress, poet and singer (died 1951).
  • Henry Tyrell-Smith, motor cycle racer (died 1982).

Deaths

• 16 January – Daniel John O'Donoghue, printer, labour leader and politician in Ontario (born 1844).
• 20 January – Agnes Mary Clerke, astronomer and writer (born 1842).
• 31 January – Timothy Eaton, businessman in Canada, founded Eaton's department store (born 1834).
• 11 February – William Howard Russell, journalist (born 1821).
• 16 March – John O'Leary, Irish poet and fenian. (born 1830 in Ireland).
• 9 April – Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (born 1853).
• 1 May – John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist and historian of economic thought (born 1823).
• 10 June – Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (born 1822).
• 8 July – John Horgan, politician and member of the Western Australian Legislative Council (born 1834).
• 3 August – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor (born 1848).
• 7 August – James Brenan, artist (born 1837).
• 13 August – George Charlemont, former Gaelic footballer, (Dublin) (born 1873).
• 17 November – Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy officer, explorer in Canadian Arctic Archipelago (born 1819).
• 17 December – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences (born 1824).

  Full date unknown

  • Robert Cain, brewer and businessman (born 1826).
  • Denis Kearney, politician in America (born 1847).