1903 in Ireland

Events in the year 1903 in Ireland.

Events

3 January – The Norwegian ship Remittant was towed into quarantine in Queenstown with the entire crew suffering from beriberi.
3 February – The proposed canonisation of Oliver Plunkett was discussed in Rome.
26–27 February – "Ulysses" Storm: A windstorm passed across Ireland, uprooting 1–3,000 trees in Phoenix Park.
26 February – The ocean liner SS Columbus was launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
27 February – A meeting at the Mansion House, Dublin, enthusiastically welcomed a movement to establish Saint Patrick's Day as a national holiday.
8 March – Charles Gavan Duffy was buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. He was laid to rest near others who took part in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848.
9 March – The Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway's Letterkenny and Burtonport Extension was opened.
17 March – In Waterford, Saint Patrick's Day was marked as a public holiday (to encourage temperance).
26 March – The Chief Secretary for Ireland, George Wyndham, introduced his Irish Land Bill in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
31 March – The Lord-Lieutenant announced that Edward VII and Queen Alexandra intended to visit Ireland within the coming year.
15 May – The Chief Secretary for Ireland, George Wyndham, asked for support for his Irish Land Bill.
23 May – Extracts from the annual report of the British Army showed that there were 35,717 Irishmen in its service.
9 June – Trinity College Dublin announced following a vote that it was to award degrees to women. The first women would be admitted in 1904.
1 July – The Belfast and Northern Counties Railway became the Northern Counties Committee of the Midland Railway of England.
19–27 July – Edward VII made his first visit to Ireland as monarch,
The Pigeon House generating station in Dublin started producing electricity.
The withdrawal of the last British Royal Navy guard ship to be permanently stationed at Kingstown, the cruiser , took place.
The Cork International Exhibition was re-opened.

Arts and literature

January – An Túr Gloine, the cooperative studio for stained glass, was established by Sarah Purser in Dublin.
8 October – J. M. Synge's play, In the Shadow of the Glen, was first performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin.
7 December – The first Irish language opera, Muirgheis, with music by Thomas O'Brien Butler and libretto by Thadgh O'Donoghue was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Dublin.
Padraic Colum's Broken Soil was performed by W. G. Fay's Irish National Dramatic Company.
George Moore's short stories The Untilled Field were published.
'Æ' (George William Russell)'s The Nuts of Knowledge, lyrical poems old and new was published by Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press at Dundrum, Dublin.
W. B. Yeats's poetry collection In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age was published by his sister's Dun Emer Press;
County Cork-born Chicago chief of police Francis O'Neill's collection O'Neill's Music of Ireland was published.

Sport

Association football

; International
: 14 February – England 4–0 Ireland (in Wolverhampton)
: 21 March – Scotland 0–2 Ireland (in Glasgow)