1907_in_Ireland

1907 in Ireland

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Decades:	1880s • 1890s • 1900s • 1910s • 1920s
Centuries:	18th • 19th • 20th • 21st
See also:	1907 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1907 List of years in Ireland

Events

2 January - A new system of rail cars running from Amien Street in Dublin to Howth is introduced.
5 January - The first motor show, under the auspices of the Irish Automobile Club, opens in the RDS Dublin.
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 - first performance of John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin triggers a week of rioting.¹
7 May - Augustine Birrell introduces the Irish Councils Bill, rejected by a Nationalist convention on 21 May and dropped by the government on 3 June.²
6 July - Irish State Jewels, valued at £50,000, are stolen from the safe in Dublin Castle.
4 September - An Irish Parliamentary Party meeting in the Mansion House 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 3 million people visited it, including a large number from abroad.

26 January - Large sections of the audience boo a performance of 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 William Butler Yeats denies trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of The Playboy of the Western World.

16 February England 1 - 0 Ireland (in Liverpool)³

23 February Ireland 2 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)³

16 March Scotland 3 - 0 Ireland (in Glasgow)³

Winners: Linfield

Winners: Cliftonville 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Shelbourne

16 January - Daniel John O'Donoghue, printer, labour leader and politician in Ontario (b.1844).
20 January - Agnes Mary Clerke, astronomer and writer (b.1842).
31 January - Timothy Eaton, businessman in Canada, founded Eaton's department store (b.1834).
11 February - William Howard Russell, journalist (b.1821).
9 April - Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (b.1853).
1 May - John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist and historian of economic thought (b.1823).
10 June - Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (b.1822).

^ ""The Playboy of the Western World, Dublin, 1907", The Guardian". Retrieved on 2008-05-16.
^ Moody, TW & Martin, FX and Byrne, JF (1982). A New History of Ireland. Ireland: Oxford University Press, p 379.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press, p 159. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.