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Events

• 31 October - The Royal University of Ireland is dissolved.
• 14 December - In the large hall of the National University in Dublin, Ernest Shackleton delivers a lecture entitled 'Nearest the South Pole.'
• 31 December - Harry Ferguson becomes the first person to fly in Ireland, when he takes off in a monoplane he had designed and built himself.
• Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast is officially recognised as a university teaching hospital.

Arts and literature

• 24 March - John Millington Synge, author and playwright, dies in Dublin aged 38.
• 20 August - The famous tenor, Enrico Caruso, performs at the Theatre Royal in Dublin.

Sport

Football

• International

13 February England 4 - 0 Ireland (in Bradford)¹

15 March Scotland 5 - 0 Ireland (in Glasgow)¹

20 March Ireland 2 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)¹

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Cliftonville 0 - 0, 2 - 1 Bohemians

Births

• 9 January - Patrick Peyton, the Rosary Priest (d.1992).
• 30 January - George Crothers, cricketer (d.1982).
• 1 February - Timothy McAuliffe, Labour Party politician (d.1985).
• 3 April - Knox Cunningham, barrister, businessman and Ulster Unionist politician (d.1976).
• 19 April - Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer (d.1974).
• 30 April - F. E. McWilliam, sculptor (d.1992).
• 24 July - Geoffrey Bing, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (d.1977).
• 7 October - Michael O'Neill, nationalist politician and MP (d.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 (d.1992).
• 4 November - Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, cricketer, squash player and art collector (d.1982).

Full date unknown

• James Auchmuty, historian (d.1981).
• Robert Dudley Edwards, historian (d.1988).
• Jack Stanley Gibson, surgeon and writer (d.2005).
• Gabriel Hayes, sculptor, designer of Irish coins (d.1978).
• Francis MacManus, novelist (d.1965).
• David Beers Quinn, historian (d.2002).
• W. R. Rodgers, poet and writer (d.1969).
• Cecilia Thackaberry, Presentation Sisters nun, killed in Nigeria performing relief work (d.1969).

Deaths

• 4 February - James Lynam Molloy, poet, songwriter and composer (b.c1837).
• 24 March - William Lundon, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (b.1839).
• 24 March - John Millington Synge, dramatist, poet and writer (b.1871).
• 4 April - Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet (b.1833).
• 22 May - Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet, Liberal Party MP (b.1839).
• 15 July - George Tyrrell, expelled Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (d.1861).
• 1 December - William Joseph Corbet, nationalist politician and MP (b.1824).

Full date unknown

• Bishop Richard Owens, Bishop of Clogher 1894-1909 (b.1840).

References