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List of events in Ireland in 1908
Events in the year 1908 in Ireland .
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
1908 Summer Olympics (London): Ireland competed as a separate country in field hockey and polo and won silver medals in both.
Golf
Births
20 February –
Florence Wycherley , independent
Teachta Dála (TD) (died 1969).
23 February –
Jim Ware ,
Waterford hurler (died 1983).
10 March –
Patrick Shanahan ,
Fianna Fáil party TD (died 2000).
27 April –
Patrick Shea , Permanent Secretary in the
Northern Ireland Civil Service (died 1986 in Northern Ireland).
5 May –
Mary Elmes , humanitarian (died 2002 in France).
10 June –
Gerard Sweetman ,
Fine Gael party TD and Cabinet minister (died 1970).
20 July –
Mad Dog Coll , born Uinseann (Vincent) Ó Colla, mob
hitman in
New York (killed in 1932 in the United States).
24 July –
Roger McHugh , professor, author, and playwright (died 1987).
18 August –
Sam English , association football player (died 1967 in Scotland).
26 September –
Hugh Delargy ,
British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) (died 1976 in Northern Ireland).
6 December –
Con Cremin , diplomat (died 1987).
Full date unknown
Deaths
17 January –
Eyre Massey Shaw , Superintendent of the
London Metropolitan Fire Brigade (born 1830; died in England).
3 February –
Thomas Mellon , entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, founder of
Mellon Bank (born 1813; died in the United States).
23 March –
Frederick Falkiner , lawyer, judge and author (born 1831).
10 June –
John F. Finerty ,
U.S. Representative from
Illinois (born 1846; died in the United States).
6 July –
Thomas William Moffett , scholar, educationalist, and President of
Queen's College Galway (born 1820).
5 August –
Caesar Litton Falkiner ,
Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer, and historian (born 1863).
30 August –
Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse , 18th
Chancellor of the University of Dublin (born 1840).
4 November –
John Pinkerton ,
Irish Parliamentary Party MP (born 1845).
15 December –
Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley , British military officer and MP (born 1831).
19 December –
Thomas Cleeve , founder of
Condensed Milk Company of Ireland , High Sheriff of
Limerick (born 1844).
See also
References