1908 in Ireland

Events in the year 1908 in Ireland.

Events

February – Republican leader Tom Clarke opened a tobacconist shop in Dublin under the name of T. S. Ó'Cléirigh which became a centre for Irish Republican Brotherhood activity.
17 February – A statue of Queen Victoria was unveiled at Leinster House in Dublin.
21 February - The Georgian Society was founded and held its inaugural meeting at Academy House on Dawson Street.
19 April – The Guildhall in Derry was largely destroyed by fire.
19 May – Work began on a monument to Charles Stewart Parnell in Upper Sackville Street, Dublin.
31 July – The Irish Universities Act 1908 received royal assent in the Parliament of the UK. This led to the establishment of the National University of Ireland and Queen's University of Belfast.
8 September – Patrick Pearse opened St. Enda's School to offer a bilingual secondary education for boys at Cullenswood House in Ranelagh. It later moved to the Hermitage, Rathfarnham.
11 November – The Irish Women's Franchise League was formed, with Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington as secretary.
29 December – The Irish Transport Workers' Union was formed, with James Larkin as general secretary.

January – Hugh Lane founded the Dublin City Gallery in Harcourt Street, the world's first to display only modern art.
1 December – Cuala Press produced its first publication, Poetry and Ireland: essays by W. B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson.
Terence MacSwiney, T. C. Murray, Con O'Leary and Daniel Corkery founded the Cork Dramatic Society.
John Millington Synge's only comedic play, The Tinker's Wedding, was published.
Filson Young's novel When the Tides Turn was published.

1908 Summer Olympics (London): Ireland competed as a separate country in field hockey and polo, and won silver medals in both.