1904 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 6 References

Events

• 26 April - King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra arrive at Kingstown. The royal couple attend the Punchestown Races for the day.
• 2 May - The King and Queen travel to Waterford where they stay at Lismore Castle, home of the Duke of Devonshire.
• 2 June - Nave of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, is consecrated.
• Construction of Government Buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin, starts (finishes 1922).
• Start of 'Limerick Pogrom'.

Arts and literature

• 16 June - Bloomsday: James Joyce meets Nora Barnacle on this day and later sets his novel Ulysses on this day.
• 27 December - The Irish National Theatre Society (Abbey Theatre) opens to the public for the first time. They witness a play by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.
• James Joyce's Eveline was first published.
• Arthur Griffith's The Resurrection of Hungary was published.

Sport

Football

• International

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

21 March Wales 0 - 1 Ireland (in Bangor)^[1]

26 March Ireland 1 - 1 Scotland (in Dublin)^[1]

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 5 - 1 Derry Celtic

• Shelbourne becomes the second Dublin team to join the Irish Football League, after Bohemians, who joined the previous year.

Births

January to June

• 16 January - Frederick Boland, diplomat, first Irish ambassador to Britain and to the United Nations (d.1985).
• 26 January - Seán MacBride, former Clann na Poblachta TD, Cabinet Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Winner (d.1988).
• 19 February - Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, writer (d.1950).
• 29 February - James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn, soldier and politician (d.1979).
• 7 March - Jim Ganly, cricketer and rugby player (d.1976).
• 27 April - Cecil Day-Lewis, poet and writer, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, (d.1972).
• 7 May - David Sullivan, labour leader in USA (d.1976).
• 5 June - Derrick Kennedy, cricketer (d.1976).

July to December

• 9 September - Jack Lawrence, cricketer (d.1984).
• 2 October - Dermot Boyle, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (d.1993).
• 21 October - Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist (d.1967).
• 13 December - William McCrea, astronomer and mathematician (d.1999).

Full date unknown

• Dinny Barry-Murphy, Cork hurler (d.1973).
• Molly Keane, novelist and playwright (d.1996).
• Michael MacLaverty, novelist (d.1992).
• John "Pondoro" Taylor, hunter and writer (d.1969).

Deaths

• 22 January - George Salmon, mathematician and theologian (b.1819).
• 21 March - William Russell Grace, businessman and first Roman Catholic mayor of New York (b.1832).
• 5 April - Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (b.1822).
• 25 May - Richard Harte Keatinge, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Chundairee, India (b.1825).
• 20 October - Richard Phelan, fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b.1828).
• 16 November - James Cooney, lawyer and Democratic politician in Missouri (b.1848).

Full date unknown

• Timothy J. Campbell, Democrat U.S. Representative from New York (b.1840).
• Edwin Hayes, watercolourist (b.1819).

References