1906 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1906 in Ireland.

Events

• 4 January – Irish Parliamentary Party Member of Parliament, William O'Brien, calls on nationalists to extract the maximum concessions for Ireland from every English government.
• 16 May – temperance reformers meet with the Lord-Lieutenant, seeking Sunday closing for all public houses, earlier closing on Saturdays and a reduction of licences throughout the country.
• 1 August – the Catholic Hierarchy rules out any scheme for mixed education at Trinity College Dublin.
• 7 August – Douglas Hyde is awarded the freedom of Dublin.
• 8 August – a Parisian court cannot grant a divorce to Maud Gonne and John MacBride. A separation is granted and she is given custody of their son, Seán MacBride.
• Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast is completed, laying claim to being the first air conditioned building in the world.
• Work on the building of Belfast City Hall is completed.
• Alice Perry becomes the first woman to graduate with a degree in civil engineering in Ireland or Britain,^[1] at Queen's College, Galway, and is appointed in December as acting county surveyor for Galway.^[2]

Arts and literature

• 'Æ' (George William Russell) publishes his poetry collection By Still Waters.^[3]
• Douglas Hyde edits and translates into English from Gaelic The Religious Songs of Connacht.^[4]
• Winifred Mary Letts' one-act play The Eyes of the Blind is premièred at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
• W. B. Yeats publishes his Poems, 1899–1905.
• Ella Young publishes her first book of verse, Poems.

Sport

Births

• 4 February – Letitia Dunbar-Harrison, librarian (died 1994).
• 13 April – Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature 1969, playwright, novelist and poet (died 1989).
• 24 May – John Joseph Scanlan, second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu (died 1997).
• 19 July – Hugh T. Baker, cricketer (died 1989).
• 11 August – James Graham, cricketer (died 1942).
• 28 September – William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel, peer and Labour politician (died 1997).
• 28 September – Lawrence Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse (d. c.1979).
• 22 October – Charles Lynch, pianist (died 1984).
• 10 December – Padraig Marrinan, artist (died 1975).

  Undated

  • Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Irish language writer (died 1970).

Deaths

• 2 March – Ellen Mary Clerke, author, journalist, poet and science writer (born 1840).
• 30 May – Michael Davitt, republican, nationalist agrarian agitator, social campaigner, labour leader and Irish National Land League founder (born 1846).
• 21 October – Edward James Saunderson, leader of the Irish Unionist Party in the British House of Commons (born 1837).
• 10 November – John Richardson Wigham, lighting engineer (born 1829 in Scotland).
• 27 November – Michael Cusack, founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association (born 1847).

  Undated

  • John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there (born 1816).

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