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List of events
Events from the year 1899 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Athletics
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Tom Kiely establishes a world record in the hammer event. He becomes the first man to throw the hammer more than 160 feet.
Golf
Yachting
Births
- 18 January –
Sir Anthony Esmonde, 15th Baronet,
Fine Gael
TD and
MEP (died
1981).
- 21 January –
John Bodkin Adams,
general practitioner in
Eastbourne cleared of murdering one of his patients (died
1983).
- 13 March –
Arthur Duff, composer and conductor (died
1956).
- 10 April –
Liam Ó Buachalla,
Cathaoirleach of
Seanad Éireann 1951–1954 and 1957–1969 (died
1970).
- 26 April –
Jimmy O'Dea, comedian (died
1965).
- 25 May –
Lory Meagher,
Kilkenny hurler (died
1973).
- 7 June –
Elizabeth Bowen, novelist and short story writer (died
1973).
- 20 June –
Robert Donovan, cricketer (died
1932).
- 4 July –
Alexander Armstrong,
naval surgeon, explorer and author (born
1818).
- 15 July –
Seán Lemass,
Fianna Fáil
TD and founder member, Cabinet Minister and
Taoiseach (died
1971).
- 9 September –
Arland Ussher, English-born academic, essayist and translator (died
1980).
- 22 September –
Mick Gill,
Galway and
Dublin hurler (died
1980).
- 25 October –
Micheál MacLiammóir, born Alfred Willmore, actor and dramatist (born in London; died
1978).
- 26 November –
Jacko Heaslip, cricketer (died
1966).
- 10 December –
Garrett Howard,
Dublin and
Limerick hurler (died
1995).
- Full date unknown
Deaths
- 16 March –
Alexander Balloch Grosart, Presbyterian minister and literary editor (born
1827 in Scotland)
- 19 March –
Patrick Walsh, journalist, politician and mayor of
Augusta, Georgia (born
1840).
- 16 May –
Frederick McCoy,
palaeontologist and
museum administrator in
Australia (born
1817).
- 5 June –
Margaret Anna Cusack, nun, writer and founder of the
Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace (born
1832).
- 18 October –
Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (born
1863).
- 8 November –
Thomas Newenham Deane, architect (born
1828).
- 17 December –
Walter Shanly, civil engineer, author, businessman and politician in
Canada (born
1817).
See also
References
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^ O’Riordan, Tomás. Arthur Griffith. University College Cork.
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a
b
c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 156.
ISBN
0-86281-874-5.