1913 in Ireland

Events from the year 1913 in Ireland.

Events

13 January – Edward Carson founded the Ulster Volunteer Force by unifying several existing loyalist militias.
30 January – At Westminster the House of Lords rejected the 3rd Home Rule Bill by 326 to 69.
10 February – John Redmond opened the replacement city bridge over the River Suir in Waterford that will be named after him.
7 July – The Home Rule Bill was once again carried in the House of Commons, despite attempts by Bonar Law to obstruct it.
26 August – Dublin Lock-out: members of James Larkin's Irish Transport and General Workers' Union employed by the Dublin United Tramways Company began strike action in defiance of the dismissal of trade union members by the chairman, businessman William Martin Murphy.
31 August – Dublin Lock-out: the Dublin Metropolitan Police killed one demonstrator and injured 400 in dispersing a demonstration in Sackville Street (Dublin).
3 September – A meeting of 400 employers with William Martin Murphy pledged not to employ any persons who continued to be members of the Irish Transport & General Workers' Union.
7 September – A large meeting in Sackville Street asserted the right of free speech, trade union representation, and demanded an enquiry into police conduct.
17 September
In Newry, Edward Carson said that a Provisional Government would be established in Ulster if Home Rule was introduced.
In Dublin, labour unrest grew with a march of 5,000 people through the city.
27 September – Twelve thousand Ulster Volunteers paraded at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society's show grounds at Balmoral in Belfast to protest against the Home Rule Bill.
27 September – In Dublin, the food ship, The Hare, arrived bringing forty tons of food raised by British trade unionists.
6 October – An official report on the lockout suggested that workers should be reinstated without having to give a pledge not to join the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union.
16 October – Four thousand men and women marched through Dublin in support of James Larkin and the Transport Union.
27 October – James Larkin of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union was sentenced to seven months in prison for seditious language but was released after just over a week.
1 November
Kingstown trade unionist James Byrne, arrested for his part in the lockout, died as the result of a hunger strike.
Professor Eoin MacNeill's article, The North Began, suggesting formation of pro-self-government Irish Volunteers, appeared in the Gaelic League newspaper An Claidheamh Soluis, at the suggestion of The O'Rahilly.
10 November – The Dublin Volunteer Corps enrolled over 2,000 men. They declared that they would preserve the "civil and religious liberties" of Protestants outside Ulster in the event of Irish Home Rule.
19 November – The Irish Citizen Army was founded by James Larkin, Jack White, and James Connolly to protect workers in the general lockout.
25 November – The pro-Home Rule Irish Volunteers were formed at a meeting attended by 4,000 men in the Rotunda Rink in Dublin.
28 November – Bonar Law addressed a huge unionist rally in the Theatre Royal in Dublin, declaring that if Home Rule was introduced Ulster would resist and would have the support of his party.

Arts and literature

George A. Birmingham's comedy General John Regan was premièred in London (8 January) and New York City (13 November).
Winifred Mary Letts published Songs from Leinster.
Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan produced his play Rope Enough.
Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha's story An Baile S’Againne was published.
Katharine Tynan's Irish Poems was published.
W. B. Yeats' poem "September 1913" was published in The Irish Times during the Dublin Lock-out (8 September). His Poems Written in Discouragement is also published this year.
English barrister and lyricist Frederic Weatherly published the ballad "Danny Boy" set to the Londonderry Air.
English music hall comedian Arthur Lucan met and married (25 November) 16-year-old actress Kitty McShane in Dublin.

Sport

Association football

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:18 January Ireland 0–1 Wales (in Belfast)
:15 February Ireland 2–1 England (in Belfast)