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1909 in Ireland
Summary
Events in
1909 in Ireland
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See also:
1909 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1909
List of years in Ireland
Events
edit
31 October – The Royal University of Ireland was dissolved.
14 December –
Ernest Shackleton
delivered a lecture entitled
Nearest the South Pole
in the large hall of the National University in
Dublin
.
31 December –
Harry Ferguson
became the first person to fly an aircraft in Ireland, in a monoplane he designed and built himself.
The
Mater Infirmorum Hospital
in
Belfast
was officially recognised as a university teaching hospital.
Fieldwork for the multidisciplinary
Clare Island Survey
commenced under the direction of
Robert Lloyd Praeger
.
Arts and literature
edit
1 April –
Lennox Robinson
's first play,
The Cross Roads
, was performed at the
Abbey Theatre
in Dublin; he became the theatre manager later in the year.
22 July – Widowed Irish painter
John Lavery
married
Irish American
painter
Hazel Martyn
.
20 August – The tenor
Enrico Caruso
performed at the Theatre Royal in Dublin.
20 December – The first dedicated cinema in Ireland, the
Volta Cinematograph
, opened in Dublin under the management of writer
James Joyce
.
[1]
Herbert Hughes
' collection of folk songs,
Irish Country Songs
, was published, including "
She Moved Through the Fair
" with words largely composed by
Padraic Colum
.
Ella Young
's first work of Irish folklore,
The Coming of Lugh
, was published.
Sport
edit
Association football
edit
International
13 February – England 4–0 Ireland (in
Bradford
)
[2]
15 March – Scotland 5–0 Ireland (in
Glasgow
)
[2]
20 March – Ireland 2–3 Wales (in
Belfast
)
[2]
Irish League
Winners:
Linfield F.C.
Irish Cup
Winners:
Cliftonville F.C.
0–0 draw; replay result 2-1
Bohemian F.C.
Births
edit
9 January –
Patrick Peyton
, priest who promoted the
Rosary
(died 1992).
30 January –
George Crothers
, cricketer (died 1982 in Northern Ireland).
1 February –
Timothy McAuliffe
,
Labour Party
politician (died 1985).
8 March –
Francis MacManus
, novelist (died 1965).
3 April –
Knox Cunningham
, barrister, businessman, and
Ulster Unionist
politician (died 1976).
19 April –
Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander
,
cryptanalyst
, chess player, and chess writer (died 1974).
24 April –
Robert Farren
(Roibeárd Ó Faracháin), poet (died 1984).
David Beers Quinn
, historian (died 2002).
[3]
30 April –
F. E. McWilliam
, sculptor (died 1992).
4 June –
Robert Dudley Edwards
, historian (died 1988).
7 July –
Cecilia Thackaberry
,
Presentation Sisters
nun, killed in Nigeria performing relief work (died 1969).
24 July –
Geoffrey Bing
, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (died 1977 in Northern Ireland).
31 July –
Martin White
,
Kilkenny
hurler (died 2011).
1 August –
W. R. Rodgers
, writer, broadcaster, teacher, and Presbyterian minister (died 1969).
4 October –
Paddy Moore
, association football player (died 1951).
7 October –
Michael O'Neill
, nationalist politician and
Member of Parliament
(MP) (died 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 (died 1992).
4 November –
Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet
, cricketer, squash player, and art collector (died 1982).
29 November –
James Auchmuty
, historian (died 1981).
Full date unknown
Muriel Brandt
, artist (died 1981 in Northern Ireland).
Jack Stanley Gibson
, surgeon and writer (died 2005).
Gabriel Hayes
, sculptor, designer of Irish coins (died 1978).
W. R. Rodgers
, poet and writer (died 1969 in Northern Ireland).
Deaths
edit
10 January –
John Conness
, United States Senator from California 1863–1869 (born 1821).
4 February –
James Lynam Molloy
, poet, songwriter, and composer (born 1837).
3 March –
Bishop Richard Owens
,
Bishop of Clogher
1894–1909 (born 1840).
19 March –
Charles Guilfoyle Doran
, Clerk of Works at
St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh
(born 1835).
24 March –
William Lundon
,
Irish Parliamentary Party
MP (born 1839).
24 March –
John Millington Synge
, author and playwright (
Hodgkin's disease
).
4 April –
Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet
(born 1833).
22 May –
Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet
,
Liberal Party
MP (born 1839).
3 June –
Charlotte Grace O'Brien
, political and social activist, writer, and plant collector (born 1845).
15 July –
George Tyrrell
, expelled
Jesuit
priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (born 1861).
1 December –
William Joseph Corbet
,
nationalist
politician and MP (born 1824).
See also
edit
1909 in Scotland
1909 in Wales
References
edit
^
Ellmann, Richard
(1982) [1959].
James Joyce
. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 303.
ISBN
0-19-281465-6
.
^
a
b
c
Hayes, Dean (2006).
Northern Ireland International Football Facts
. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 1.
ISBN
0-86281-874-5
.
^
Dutton, David (6 April 2002). "Obituary: David Quinn".
The Guardian
. Retrieved
11 January
2018
.