1909 in Ireland

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See also: 1908 in Ireland, other events of 1909, 1910 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'.

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• 31 October - The Royal University of Ireland is dissolved.
• 14 December - In the large hall of the National University in Dublin, Ernest Shackleton delivers a lecture entitled 'Nearest the South Pole.'
• 31 December - Harry Ferguson became the first person to fly in Ireland, when he took off in a monoplane he had designed and built himself.

[edit] Arts and literature

• 24 March - John Millington Synge, author and playwright, dies in Dublin aged 38.
• 20 August - The famous tenor, Enrico Caruso, performs at the Theatre Royal in Dublin.

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Cliftonville 0 - 0, 2 - 1 Bohemians

[edit] Births

• 3 April - Knox Cunningham, barrister, businessman and Ulster Unionist politician (d.1976).
• 30 April - F. E. McWilliam, sculptor (d.1992).
• 7 October - Michael O'Neill, nationalist politician and MP (d.1976).
• David Beers Quinn, historian (d.2002).

[edit] Deaths

• 24 March - John Millington Synge, dramatist and poet.
• 4 April - Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet (b.1833).
• Bishop Richard Owens, Bishop of Clogher 1894-1909 (b.1840).