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List of events in Ireland in 1910
Events in the year 1910 in Ireland .
Events
8 January –
Sinéad Flanagan married future Irish president
Éamon de Valera in
Dublin .
21 February –
Irish Unionist members of the
Westminster Parliament elected
Sir Edward Carson as party leader, replacing
Walter Long .
23 February –
St Patrick's College, Maynooth , became a recognised college of the
National University of Ireland .
May – The
Irish Countrywomen's Association was founded, as the Society of the United Irishwomen, by a group of educated and largely Protestant women in
Bree, County Wexford .
[1]
June –
Bridget Dowling eloped to London with Alois Hitler, Jr., a kitchen porter at the
Shelbourne Hotel , Dublin, and half-brother to
Adolf .
July –
Irish republican and socialist leader
James Connolly returned to Ireland from the United States.
August – The first passenger flight in
Ulster :
Harry Ferguson piloted Miss Rita Marr.
[2]
29 August – The Aero Club of Ireland held its inaugural aviation meeting at
Leopardstown Racecourse .
11 September – English-born actor-aviator
Robert Loraine made an aeroplane flight from Wales across the
Irish Sea but landed some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in
Dublin Bay .
[3]
[4]
20 October –
RMS Olympic was launched at the
Harland & Wolff shipyard in
Belfast . At 45,324 gross tons, she was the largest ship afloat. Her sister ship
RMS Titanic was launched 16 months later.
November
3 December –
Sir Edward Carson and
James Campbell were re-elected unopposed as Unionist Members of Parliament for
Trinity College Dublin .
The
Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland was created by merger of the Presbytery of Antrim and Remonstrant Synod of Ulster.
[6]
Lilian Bland built and flew her own
biplane
glider , the first built in Ireland, from
Carnmoney Hill ; an engine was fitted soon afterwards
[7] and she made her first powered flight in late August.
Arts and literature
13 January – The play Deirdre of the Sorrows by
John Millington Synge (died 1909) was performed for the first time at the
Abbey Theatre , Dublin.
5 May –
Padraic Colum 's play Thomas Muskerry premiered at the Abbey Theatre.
7 May –
Annie Horniman withdrew financial support from the Abbey Theatre in protest at its refusal to close on the death of King
Edward VII the previous day.
August – The
Kalem Company of
New York began shooting the first of several films partly on location in Ireland,
A Lad from Old Ireland , with a filming location around
Beaufort, County Kerry , with Canadian Irish director
Sidney Olcott . This was the first production by an American
film studio to be shot outside the United States.
September –
Lord Dunsany 's short story collection
A Dreamer's Tales was published.
3 November – The oldest
céilí band in Ireland,
The Kilfenora Céilí Band was founded in
Kilfenora , County Clare.
[8]
The
Cork Public Museum opened.
Terence MacSwiney 's first play, The Last Warriors of Coole , was produced.
Ella Young 's first book of stories, Celtic Wonder Tales , was published with illustrations by
Maud Gonne .
Sport
International
12 February Ireland 1–1 England (in
Belfast )
[9]
19 March Ireland 1–0 Scotland (in Belfast)
[9]
11 April Wales 4–1 Ireland (in
Wrexham )
[9]
Births
1 January –
Charles Billingsley , cricketer (died 1951).
[10]
2 January –
Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin , politician (died 1991).
6 January –
James "Lugs" Branigan , police detective and boxer (died 1986).
16 January –
William Bedell Stanford , classical scholar and senator (died 1984).
29 January –
Colin Middleton , artist (died 1983).
10 April –
Fintan Coogan Snr ,
Fine Gael party
Teachta Dála (TD) (died 1984).
13 April –
Aloys Fleischmann , composer and musicologist (died 1992).
9 May –
Barbara Woodhouse , dog trainer (died 1988).
20 May –
Johnny Callanan ,
Fianna Fáil party TD (died 1982).
5 June –
Ham Lambert , cricketer and rugby player (died 2006).
12 June –
Bill Naughton , playwright and author (died 1992).
27 June –
Nicholas Mansergh , historian (died 1991).
1 July –
Dan Spring ,
Gaelic footballer , trade unionist and
Labour Party TD (died 1988).
4 July –
George Otto Simms ,
Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and
Archbishop of Armagh (died 1991).
1 August –
Cathal Gannon ,
harpsichord maker and
fortepiano restorer (died 1999).
8 August –
Bobby Kirk , ice hockey player (died 1970).
14 August –
Eddie Ingram , cricketer (died 1973).
24 September –
Robert Alexander , rugby and cricket player (died 1943).
1 November –
Michael Lyons , Fine Gael party TD and Senator (died 1991).
15 November –
Geoffrey Toone , actor (died 2005).
19 November –
Manliff Barrington , motorcycle racer (died 1999).
26 November –
Cyril Cusack , actor (died 1993).
29 November –
Máirtín Ó Direáin , poet (died 1988).
10 December –
Vivion de Valera , barrister, managing director of
The Irish Press , Fianna Fáil party TD representing
Dublin North-West (died 1982).
22 December –
James Boucher , cricketer (died 1995).
26 December –
Stephen Coughlan , Labour Party TD and
Mayor of Limerick (died 1994).
Full date unknown
Deaths
See also
References