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Events in 1909 in Ireland.

Events

  • 31 October – The Royal University of Ireland was dissolved.
  • 14 December – Ernest Shackleton delivered a lecture entitled Nearest the South Pole in the large hall of the National University in Dublin.
  • 31 December – Harry Ferguson became the first person to fly an aircraft in Ireland, in a monoplane he designed and built himself.
  • The Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast was officially recognised as a university teaching hospital.
  • Fieldwork for the multidisciplinary Clare Island Survey commenced under the direction of Robert Lloyd Praeger.

Arts and literature

  • 1 April – Lennox Robinson's first play, The Cross Roads, was performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin; he became the theatre manager later in the year.
  • 22 July – Widowed Irish painter John Lavery married Irish American painter Hazel Martyn.
  • 20 August – The tenor Enrico Caruso performed at the Theatre Royal in Dublin.
  • 20 December – The first dedicated cinema in Ireland, the Volta Cinematograph, opened in Dublin under the management of writer James Joyce.
  • Herbert Hughes' collection of folk songs, Irish Country Songs, was published, including "She Moved Through the Fair" with words largely composed by Padraic Colum.
  • Ella Young's first work of Irish folklore, The Coming of Lugh, was published.

Sport

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Association football

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  • 13 February – England 4–0 Ireland (in Bradford)
  • 15 March – Scotland 5–0 Ireland (in Glasgow)
  • 30 April – F. E. McWilliam, sculptor (died 1992).
  • 4 June – Robert Dudley Edwards, historian (died 1988).
  • 7 July – Cecilia Thackaberry, Presentation Sisters nun, killed in Nigeria performing relief work (died 1969).
  • 24 July – Geoffrey Bing, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (died 1977 in Northern Ireland).
  • 31 July – Martin White, Kilkenny hurler (died 2011).
  • 1 August – W. R. Rodgers, writer, broadcaster, teacher and Presbyterian minister (died 1969).
  • 4 October – Paddy Moore, association football player (died 1951).
  • 7 October – Michael O'Neill, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) (died 1976).
  • 25 August – Gabriel Hayes, sculptor, designer of Irish coins (died 1978).
  • 20 October – James Patrick Scully, awarded George Cross for valour in 1941 in Liverpool in rescuing people from a bomb damaged building (d. 1974).
  • 28 October – Francis Bacon, painter (died 1992).
  • 4 November – Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, cricketer, squash player and art collector (died 1982).
  • 29 November – James Auchmuty, historian (died 1981).
  • 6 December – Daniel A. McGovern, U.S. Army Air Forces photographer, documented atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (died 2005).
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  • Jack Stanley Gibson, surgeon and writer (died 2005).
  • W. R. Rodgers, poet and writer (died 1969 in Northern Ireland).

Deaths

  • 10 January – John Conness, United States Senator from California 1863–1869 (born 1821).
  • 4 February – James Lynam Molloy, poet, songwriter, and composer (born 1837).
  • 3 March – Bishop Richard Owens, Bishop of Clogher 1894–1909 (born 1840).
  • 19 March – Charles Guilfoyle Doran, Clerk of Works at St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh (born 1835).
  • 24 March – William Lundon, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (born 1839).
  • 24 March – John Millington Synge, author and playwright (Hodgkin's disease).
  • 4 April – Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet (born 1833).
  • 22 May – Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet, Liberal Party MP (born 1839).
  • 3 June – Charlotte Grace O'Brien, political and social activist, writer, and plant collector (born 1845).
  • 15 July – George Tyrrell, expelled Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (born 1861).
  • 1 December – William Joseph Corbet, nationalist politician and MP (born 1824).

See also

  • 1909 in Scotland
  • 1909 in Wales

References