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List of events in Ireland in 1909
Events in 1909 in Ireland .
Events
31 October – The Royal University of Ireland was dissolved.
14 December –
Ernest Shackleton delivered a lecture entitled Nearest the South Pole in the large hall of the National University in
Dublin .
31 December –
Harry Ferguson became the first person to fly an aircraft in Ireland, in a monoplane he designed and built himself.
The
Mater Infirmorum Hospital in
Belfast was officially recognised as a university teaching hospital.
Fieldwork for the multidisciplinary
Clare Island Survey commenced under the direction of
Robert Lloyd Praeger .
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
9 January –
Patrick Peyton , priest who promoted the
Rosary (died 1992).
30 January –
George Crothers , cricketer (died 1982 in Northern Ireland).
1 February –
Timothy McAuliffe ,
Labour Party politician (died 1985).
8 March –
Francis MacManus , novelist (died 1965).
3 April –
Knox Cunningham , barrister, businessman, and
Ulster Unionist politician (died 1976).
19 April –
Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander ,
cryptanalyst , chess player, and chess writer (died 1974).
24 April –
30 April –
F. E. McWilliam , sculptor (died 1992).
4 June –
Robert Dudley Edwards , historian (died 1988).
7 July –
Cecilia Thackaberry ,
Presentation Sisters nun, killed in Nigeria performing relief work (died 1969).
24 July –
Geoffrey Bing , lawyer and Labour politician in UK (died 1977 in Northern Ireland).
31 July –
Martin White ,
Kilkenny hurler (died 2011).
1 August –
W. R. Rodgers , writer, broadcaster, teacher, and Presbyterian minister (died 1969).
4 October –
Paddy Moore , association football player (died 1951).
7 October –
Michael O'Neill , nationalist politician and
Member of Parliament (MP) (died 1976).
20 October –
James Patrick Scully , awarded
George Cross for valour in 1941 in
Liverpool in rescuing people from a bomb damaged building.
28 October –
Francis Bacon , painter (died 1992).
4 November –
Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet , cricketer, squash player, and art collector (died 1982).
29 November –
James Auchmuty , historian (died 1981).
Full date unknown
Deaths
10 January –
John Conness , United States Senator from California 1863–1869 (born 1821).
4 February –
James Lynam Molloy , poet, songwriter, and composer (born 1837).
3 March –
Bishop Richard Owens ,
Bishop of Clogher 1894–1909 (born 1840).
19 March –
Charles Guilfoyle Doran , Clerk of Works at
St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh (born 1835).
24 March –
William Lundon ,
Irish Parliamentary Party MP (born 1839).
24 March –
John Millington Synge , author and playwright (
Hodgkin's disease ).
4 April –
Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet (born 1833).
22 May –
Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet ,
Liberal Party MP (born 1839).
3 June –
Charlotte Grace O'Brien , political and social activist, writer, and plant collector (born 1845).
15 July –
George Tyrrell , expelled
Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (born 1861).
1 December –
William Joseph Corbet ,
nationalist politician and MP (born 1824).
See also
References