1908 in Ireland

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 Full date unknown 6 References

Events

• 19 May - Work begins on a monument to Charles Stewart Parnell in Upper Sackville Street, Dublin.
• 31 July - Irish Universities Act receives Royal Assent in the Parliament of the UK. This ultimately leads to the establishment of the National University of Ireland and Queen's University of Belfast.^[1]
• 8 September - Padraic Pearse opens Scoil Eanna (St. Enda's) school for boys in Cullenswood House, Ranelagh. It would be later moved to the Hermitage, Rathfarnham.
• 11 November - Irish Women's Franchise League is formed with Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington as secretary.
• 29 December - Irish Transport Workers' Union is formed with James Larkin as general secretary.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• International

15 February Ireland 1 - 3 England (in Belfast)^[2]

14 March Ireland 0 - 5 Scotland (in Dublin)^[2]

11 April Wales 0 - 1 Ireland (in Aberdare)^[2]

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Bohemians 1 - 1, 3 - 1 Shelbourne

Golf

• The course at Royal County Down Golf Club is modified by Harry Vardon, and King Edward VII bestows royal patronage on the club.

Births

• 10 March - Patrick Shanahan, Fianna Fáil TD (d.2000).
• 27 April - Patrick Shea, former Permanent Secretary in the Northern Ireland Civil Service (d.1986).
• 10 June - Gerard Sweetman, former Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1970).
• 20 July - Mad Dog Coll, mob hitman in New York (d.1932).
• 18 August - Sam English, soccer player (d.1967).
• 6 December - Con Cremin, diplomat (d.1987).

Full date unknown

• Hugh Delargy, British Labour Party politician and MP (d.1976).
• Frances Kelly, painter (d.2002).
• Niall Ó Dónaill, Irish language lexicographer and writer (d.1995).
• Mervyn Wall, novelist and dramatist (d.1997).
• Jim Ware, Waterford hurler (d.1983).

Deaths

• 3 February - Thomas Mellon, entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, founder of Mellon Bank (b.1813).
• 23 March - Frederick Falkiner, lawyer, judge and author (b.1831).
• 10 June - John F. Finerty, U.S. Representative from Illinois (b.1846).
• 6 July - Thomas William Moffett, scholar, educationalist and President of Queen's College Galway (b.1820).
• 5 August - Caesar Litton Falkiner, Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer and historian (b.1863).
• 30 August - Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse, eighteenth Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin (b.(1840).
• 4 November - John Pinkerton, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (b.1845).
• 15 December - Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley, British military officer and MP (b.1831).
• 19 December - Thomas Cleeve, founder of Condensed Milk Company of Ireland, High Sheriff of Limerick (b.1844).

Full date unknown

• Eyre Massey Shaw, Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (now renamed the London Fire Brigade) (b.1830).

References