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1909 in Ireland
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1909
in
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1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
Decades:
1880s • 1890s •
1900s
• 1910s • 1920s
Centuries:
18th • 19th •
20th
• 21st
See also:
1909 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1909
List of years in Ireland
Contents
1
Events
2
Arts and literature
3
Sport
3.1
Football
4
Births
4.1
Full date unknown
5
Deaths
5.1
Full date unknown
6
References
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
becomes the first person to fly in
Ireland
, when he takes off in a monoplane he had designed and built himself.
Mater Infirmorum Hospital
in
Belfast
is officially recognised as a university teaching hospital.
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
.
Sport
Football
International
13 February England 4 - 0 Ireland (in
Bradford
)
[
1
]
15 March Scotland 5 - 0 Ireland (in
Glasgow
)
[
1
]
20 March Ireland 2 - 3 Wales (in
Belfast
)
[
1
]
Irish League
Winners:
Linfield
Irish Cup
Winners:
Cliftonville
0 - 0, 2 - 1
Bohemians
Births
9 January -
Patrick Peyton
, the Rosary Priest (d.
1992
).
30 January -
George Crothers
, cricketer (d.
1982
).
1 February -
Timothy McAuliffe
,
Labour Party
politician (d.
1985
).
3 April -
Knox Cunningham
, barrister, businessman and
Ulster Unionist
politician (d.
1976
).
19 April -
Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander
,
cryptanalyst
,
chess
player, and chess writer (d.
1974
).
30 April -
F. E. McWilliam
, sculptor (d.
1992
).
24 July -
Geoffrey Bing
, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (d.
1977
).
31 July -
Martin White
, former
Kilkenny
hurler (d.
2011
).
7 October -
Michael O'Neill
, nationalist politician and
MP
(d.
1976
).
20 October -
James Patrick Scully
, awarded
George Cross
for valour in 1941 in
Liverpool
in rescuing people from a bomb damaged building.
28 October -
Francis Bacon
, painter (d.
1992
).
4 November -
Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet
, cricketer, squash player and art collector (d.
1982
).
Full date unknown
James Auchmuty
, historian (d.
1981
)
Muriel Brandt
, artist (d.
1981
)
Robert Dudley Edwards
, historian (d.
1988
).
Jack Stanley Gibson
, surgeon and writer (d.
2005
).
Gabriel Hayes
, sculptor, designer of Irish coins (d.
1978
).
Francis MacManus
, novelist (d.
1965
).
David Beers Quinn
, historian (d.
2002
).
W. R. Rodgers
, poet and writer (d.
1969
).
Cecilia Thackaberry
,
Presentation Sisters
nun, killed in
Nigeria
performing relief work (d.
1969
).
Deaths
4 February -
James Lynam Molloy
, poet, songwriter and composer (b.c1837).
24 March -
William Lundon
,
Irish Parliamentary Party
MP
(b.
1839
).
24 March -
John Millington Synge
, dramatist, poet and writer (b.
1871
).
4 April -
Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet
(b.
1833
).
22 May -
Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet
,
Liberal Party
MP
(b.
1839
).
15 July -
George Tyrrell
, expelled
Jesuit
priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (d.
1861
).
1 December -
William Joseph Corbet
,
nationalist
politician
and
MP
(b.
1824
).
Full date unknown
Bishop Richard Owens
,
Bishop of Clogher
1894-1909 (b.
1840
).
References
^
a
b
c
Hayes, Dean (2006).
Northern Ireland International Football Facts
. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 1.
ISBN
0-86281-874-5.