1910 in Ireland

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See also:	1910 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1910 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1910 in Ireland.

Events

• 8 January – Sinéad Flanagan marries Éamon de Valera in Dublin.
• 21 February – Irish Unionist members of the Westminster Parliament elect Sir Edward Carson as party leader, replacing Walter Long.
• 23 February – St Patrick's College, Maynooth, becomes a recognised college of the National University of Ireland.
• May – Irish Countrywomen's Association founded as the Society of the United Irishwomen by a group of educated and largely Protestant women in Bree, County Wexford "to improve the standard of life in rural Ireland through Education and Co-operative effort".^[1]
• June – Bridget Dowling elopes to London with Alois Hitler, Jr., a kitchen porter at the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, and half-brother to Adolf.
• August – first passenger flight in Ulster: Harry Ferguson pilots Miss Rita Marr.^[2]
• 29 August – the Aero Club of Ireland holds its inaugural aviation meeting at Leopardstown Racecourse.
• 11 September – English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine makes an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea but lands some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay.^[3][4]
• 20 October – RMS Olympic is launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. At 45,324 gross tons, she is the largest ship afloat. Her sister ship RMS Titanic will be launched in sixteen months' time.
• November – reconstruction of the original city bridge over the River Suir in Waterford begins; it will be opened by John Redmond in 1913.^[5]
• 3 December – Sir Edward Carson and James Campbell are re-elected unopposed as Unionist Members of Parliament for Trinity College Dublin.
• Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland created by merger of the Presbytery of Antrim and Remonstrant Synod of Ulster.^[6]
• Lilian Bland builds and flies her own biplane glider, the first built in Ireland, from Carnmoney Hill, soon afterwards fitting an engine^[7] and making her first powered flight in late August.

Arts and literature

• 13 January – Deirdre of the Sorrows by J. M. Synge (died 1909) is performed for the first time at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
• 5 May – Padraic Colum's play Thomas Muskerry is premiered at the Abbey Theatre.
• 7 May – Annie Horniman withdraws financial support from the Abbey Theatre in protest at its refusal to close on the death of Edward VII the previous day.
• August – the Kalem Company of New York begins shooting the first of several films partly on location in Ireland, A Lad from Old Ireland, with a filming location around Beaufort, County Kerry, with Canadian Irish director Sidney Olcott. This is the first production by an American film studio to be shot outside the United States.
• September – Lord Dunsany's short story collection A Dreamer's Tales is published.
• 3 November – foundation of The Kilfenora Céilí Band in Kilfenora, County Clare, the oldest céilí band in Ireland.^[8]
• Cork Public Museum opened.
• Terence MacSwiney's first play, The Last Warriors of Coole, is produced.
• Ella Young's first book of stories, Celtic Wonder Tales, is published with illustrations by Maud Gonne.

Sport

Births

• 1 January – Charles Billingsley, cricketer (died 1951)^[10]
• 2 January – Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin, politician (died 1991)
• 6 January – James Christopher Branigan, aka "Lugs Brannigan", police detective and boxer (died 1986)
• 29 January – Colin Middleton, artist (died 1983)
• 10 April – Fintan Coogan Snr, Fine Gael TD (died 1984)
• 13 April – Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist (died 1992).
• 9 May – Barbara Woodhouse, née Blackburn, dog trainer (died 1988)
• 20 May – Johnny Callanan, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1982)
• 5 June – Ham Lambert, cricketer and rugby player (died 2006)
• 12 June – Bill Naughton, playwright and author (died 1992)
• 27 June – Nicholas Mansergh, historian (died 1991)
• 1 July – Dan Spring, Gaelic footballer, trade unionist and Labour Party TD (died 1988).
• 4 July – George Otto Simms, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Archbishop of Armagh (died 1991).
• 1 August – Cathal Gannon, harpsichord maker and fortepiano restorer (died 1999).
• 8 August – Bobby Kirk, ice hockey player (died 1970).
• 14 August – Eddie Ingram, cricketer (died 1973).
• 24 September – Robert Alexander (Irish sportsman) (died 1943).
• 1 November – Michael Lyons, Fine Gael TD and Senator (died 1991).
• 15 November – Geoffrey Toone, actor (died 2005).
• 19 November – Manliff Barrington, motorcycle racer (died 1999).
• 26 November – Cyril Cusack, actor (died 1993).
• 29 November – Máirtín Ó Direáin, poet (died 1988).
• 10 December – Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director of The Irish Press, Fianna Fáil TD representing Dublin North-West (died 1982).
• 22 December – James Boucher, cricketer (died 1995).
• 26 December – Stephen Coughlan, Labour Party TD and Mayor of Limerick (died 1994).

  Full date unknown

  • Peter Kavanagh, soccer player (died 1993).
  • Betty Miller, née Spiro, writer (died 1965 in England).
  • Séamus Ó Néill, writer (died 1986).

Deaths

• 17 February – St. Clair Augustine Mulholland, American Civil War officer (born 1839).
• 6 May – Edward VII (born 1841)
• 30 August – Hedges Eyre Chatterton, Conservative Party MP and Vice-Chancellor of Ireland (born 1819).
• 30 August – George Throssell, second Premier of Western Australia (born 1840).

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