1902 in Ireland

1902
in
Ireland

Decades:	1880s • 1890s • 1900s • 1910s • 1920s
Centuries:	18th • 19th • 20th • 21st
See also:	1902 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1902 List of years in Ireland

Events

7 January - Waterford Corporation passes a motion to confer the freedom of the city on John Redmond.
8 January - The Great National Convention takes place in the Round Room of the Rotunda in Dublin. Motions are passed regarding coercion, the Irish language and evicted tenants.
2 April - John Redmond is awarded the freedom of Dublin.
2 June - The centenary of the Christian Brothers is celebrated with High Mass in the Pro-Cathedral on Chicago.
22 July - Archbishop Thomas Croke dies at the age of 78. He was the first patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association and was a supporter of the Gaelic League and the Land League.
Dunraven land conference starts.^[1]

22 February Wales 0 - 3 Ireland (in Cardiff)^[3]

1 March Ireland 1 - 5 Scotland (in Belfast)^[3]

22 March Ireland 0 - 1 England (in Belfast)^[3]

Winners: Linfield

Winners: Linfield 5 - 0 Distillery

Winners: 26 April Hibernian 1 - 0 Celtic (at Celtic Park, Glasgow)

2 January - Dan Keating, Ireland's oldest man and last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence (d.2007).
13 January - Francis Connell, cricketer (d.1983).
20 January - Kevin Barry, executed for his part in an Irish Republican Army operation resulting in the deaths of three British soldiers (d.1920).
25 April Cormac Breslin, Fianna Fáil TD and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (d.1978).

20 July - Jimmy Kennedy, songwriter (d.1984).
21 July - William Bernard Barry, politician in the United States (d.1946).
16 August - Arthur Douglas, cricketer and rugby player (d.1937).
4 September - Patrick Lenihan, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1970).
16 September - James Dillon, former leader of Fine Gael, TD and Minister (d.1986).
16 December - Billy King, cricketer (d.1987).
29 December - Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford, politician, dramatist and poet (d.1961).
December - Maurice Gerard Moynihan, civil servant and writer (d.1999).

Thekla Beere, civil servant (d.1991).
Maurice Gorham, journalist and broadcasting executive (d.1975).
Jim Hurley, veteran of the Irish War of Independence, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler (d.1965).
Patrick MacDonogh, poet (d.1961).
Frank Ryan, member of the Irish Republican Army, editor of An Phoblacht, leftist activist and leader of Irish volunteers on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War (d.1944).
Francis Stuart, writer (d.2000).

20 January - Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic (b.1814).
10 March - C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia (b.1843).
21 April - Ethna Carbery, writer and poet (b.1866).
20 July - John William Mackay, businessman in America (b.1831).
22 July - Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association (b.1824).
23 December - Lucius Gwynn, cricketer (b.1873).

^ ^a ^b Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds) (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork, Ireland: The Mercier Press. p. 380.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 460–461. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 157. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.