1907 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Golf 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December 5.3 Full date unknown 6 References

[edit] Events

• 2 January - A new system of rail cars running from Amien Street in Dublin to Howth is introduced.
• 5 January - The first motor show, under the auspices of the Irish Automobile Club, opens in the RDS Dublin.
• 6 January - The Sunday provisions of the new Licensing Act come into operation in Dublin and four other cities. Sunday opening hours will be from 2pm to 5pm.
• 26 January - first performance of John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin triggers a week of rioting.^[1]
• 7 May - Augustine Birrell introduces the Irish Councils Bill, rejected by a Nationalist convention on 21 May and dropped by the government on 3 June.^[2]
• 6 July - Irish State Jewels, valued at £50,000, are stolen from the safe in Dublin Castle.
• 4 September - An Irish Parliamentary Party meeting in the Mansion House is disrupted by Sinn Féin who hold a demonstration outside.
• 17 October - The Marconi transatlantic wireless telegraphy service between Galway and Canada is opened. Messages are exchanged without a hitch.
• 9 November - The Irish International Exhibition ends after six months. An estimated 3 million people visited it, including a large number from abroad.

[edit] Arts and literature

• 26 January - Large sections of the audience boo a performance of The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre.
• 28 January - Another performance of The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre is interrupted by the audience who continue to boo, hiss and shout.
• 4 February - In a public debate at the Abbey Theatre the poet William Butler Yeats denies trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of The Playboy of the Western World.

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• International

16 February England 1 - 0 Ireland (in Liverpool)^[3]

23 February Ireland 2 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)^[3]

16 March Scotland 3 - 0 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[3]

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Cliftonville 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Shelbourne

[edit] Golf

• British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: May Hezlet).

[edit] Births

• 21 February - Colville Deverell, cricketer and politician (d.1995).
• 15 May - John Galvin, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1963).
• 13 July - John David Gwynn, cricketer (d.1998).
• 14 August - H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist MP (d.1989).
• 14 September - Edel Quinn, lay missionary (d.1944).
• 8 October - J. G. Devlin, actor (d.1991).
• 28 October - John Harold Hewitt, poet (d.1987).
• 1 November - Bill Loughery, cricketer (d.1977).
• 19 December - Jimmy McLarnin, boxer (d.2004).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Robert Malachy Burke, Christian Socialist and philanthropist (d.1998).
• Theodore William Moody, historian (d.1984).
• Seamus Murphy, sculptor (d.1975).
• Paul O'Dwyer, lawyer and politician in the United States (d.1998).
• Dan O'Keefe, Kerry Gaelic footballer.
• Margot Ruddock, actress, poet and singer (d.1951).
• H G Tyrell Smith, motor cycle racer.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• 16 January - Daniel John O'Donoghue, printer, labour leader and politician in Ontario (b.1844).
• 20 January - Agnes Mary Clerke, astronomer and writer (b.1842).
• 31 January - Timothy Eaton, businessman in Canada, founded Eaton's department store (b.1834).
• 11 February - William Howard Russell, journalist (b.1821).
• 9 April - Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (b.1853).
• 1 May - John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist and historian of economic thought (b.1823).
• 10 June - Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (b.1822).

[edit] July to December

• 8 July - John Horgan, politician and member of the Western Australian Legislative Council (b.1834).
• 3 August - Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor (b.1848).
• 17 November - Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy officer, explorer in Canadian Arctic Archipelago (b.1819).
• 17 December - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences (b.1824).

[edit] Full date unknown

• James Brenan, artist (b.1837).
• Robert Cain, brewer and businessman (b.1826).
• Dennis Kearney, politician in America (b.1847).

[edit] References