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Events from the year 1899 in Ireland.

Events

  • 14 January – Ocean liner RMS Oceanic is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
  • 4 March – the first issue of Arthur Griffith and William Rooney's nationalist newspaper, The United Irishman, is published.
  • 6 September – the foundation stone of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, is laid by the Countess of Shaftesbury.
  • 11 October – the Second Boer War begins in South Africa. Major John MacBride raises the Irish Transvaal Brigade to aid the Boers. Nationalist Member of Parliament Michael Davitt withdraws from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in protest at the war.

Arts and literature

  • 8 May – the Irish Literary Theatre, founded by W. B. Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn, stages its first performance, a version of Yeats' verse drama The Countess Cathleen, at the Antient Concert Rooms in Great Brunswick Street, Dublin.
  • Somerville and Ross publish their first collection of humorous stories Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
  • W. B. Yeats publishes The Wind Amongst the Reeds.
  • The Rathmines and Rathgar music society is founded.

Sport

Athletics

  • Tom Kiely establishes a world record in the hammer event. He becomes the first man to throw the hammer more than 160 feet.

Football

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  • :18 February England 13–2 Ireland (in Sunderland)
  • :4 March Ireland 1–0 Wales (in Belfast)