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Events from the year 1914 in Ireland.

Events

  • 17 January – Edward Carson inspected a parade of the East Belfast Regiment of the Ulster Volunteers.
  • 20 February – The Fethard-on-Sea life-boat capsized on service off the County Wexford coast: nine crew were lost.
  • 26 February – , designed as the third and largest , was launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyards in Belfast.
  • 1 March – Three outbreaks of foot and mouth disease were confirmed in County Cork.
  • 9 March – The British Prime Minister proposed to allow the Ulster counties to hold a vote on whether or not to join a Home Rule parliament in Dublin.
  • 20 March – Curragh incident: British Army officers stationed in Ireland at the Curragh Camp resigned their commissions rather than be ordered to resist action by Unionist Ulster Volunteers if the Government of Ireland Act ("Third Home Rule Bill") was passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The government backs down and they are reinstated.
  • 2 April – Cumann na mBan, the Irish republican women's paramilitary organisation, was formed in Dublin as an auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers.
  • 6 April – The second reading of the Home Rule Bill was carried in Westminster.
  • 24–25 April – Larne Gun Running: 35,000 rifles and over 3 million rounds of ammunition from a German dealer were landed at Larne, Bangor, and Donaghadee for the Unionist Ulster Volunteers and were quickly distributed around Ulster by motor transport.
  • 21 July – A conference (called on 19 July) was opened at Buckingham Palace by the King. It was hoped that unionists and nationalists attending would break the impasse over Home Rule.
  • 24 July – The Buckingham Palace conference ended in failure. Nationalists and Unionists present could not agree in principle or in detail.
  • 26 July – Howth gun-running: Former British civil servant and novelist Erskine Childers and his wife Molly sailed into Howth in his yacht and landed 2,500 guns for the nationalist Irish Volunteers from a German dealer. Troops of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, returning to Dublin having been called out to assist police in attempting to prevent the Volunteers from moving the arms to the city, perpetrated the Bachelor's Walk massacre, firing on a crowd of protestors at Bachelors Walk, killing three; a fourth man died later from bayonet wounds and more than 30 others were injured.
  • 4 August – World War I: Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the German Empire.
  • September – The Ulster Division was formed as a division of the British New Army from Ulster Volunteers.
  • 18 September – The Government of Ireland Act (the Home Rule Act) received Royal Assent (although George V had contemplated refusing it) but was postponed (as projected on 30 July) for the duration of World War I
  • 18 October – The British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet took shelter in Lough Swilly while Scapa Flow was secured against submarine attack.
  • 27 October – World War I: Royal Navy super-dreadnought battleship (23,400 tons), was sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
  • 5 December – The Irish Volunteers appointed a headquarters staff, with Eoin MacNeill as chief of staff.
  • Welsh evangelist George Jeffreys established his first church in Belfast, predecessor of the Elim Pentecostal Church.

Arts and literature

  • February
  • James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man commenced serialization in The Egoist (London).
  • Lord Dunsany's collection Five Plays was published in London.
  • 4 February – A staging of George A. Birmingham's comedy General John Regan at Westport Town Hall provoked a riot.
  • June – James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of fifteen short stories depicting the Irish middle classes in and around Dublin during the early 20th century, was published in London.
  • Terence MacSwiney's contemporary play The Revolutionist was published (first performed 1921).

Sports

Association football

International

  • Ireland won the British Home Championship football tournament outright for the first time.
  • 19 January – Wales 1–2 Ireland (in Wrexham)
  • 14 February – England 0–3 Ireland (in Middlesbrough)
  • 1 September – George Henry Morris, soldier, first commanding officer to lead an Irish Guards battalion into battle, killed in action (born 1872).
  • 15 October – Anthony Traill, provost of Trinity College Dublin (born 1838).
  • 2 November – Charles FitzClarence, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 near Mafeking, killed in action (born 1865).
  • 10 November – Lydia Shackleton, botanical artist (born 1828).
  • 22 December – John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer, lawyer and politician in Canada (born 1848).
  • 26 December – Thomas Kelly-Kenny, British Army general who served in the Second Boer War (born 1840).

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