1919 in Ireland

1919
in
Ireland

Decades:	1890s • 1900s • 1910s • 1920s • 1930s
Centuries:	18th • 19th • 20th • 21st
See also:	1919 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1919 List of years in Ireland

Events

21 January - Dáil Éireann meets for the very first time in the Round Room of the Mansion House, Dublin. An independent Irish Republic is declared. In the first shots of the Anglo-Irish War, two Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) men are killed in Tipperary.
3 February - Éamon de Valera, the leader of Sinn Féin, and two other prisoners escape from Lincoln Prison in England. The prison break was personally arranged by Michael Collins and Harry Boland.
1 April - Fifty-two members of Sinn Féin attend the second meeting of Dáil Éireann. Seán T. O'Kelly is elected Ceann Comhairle and Éamon de Valera is elected President of Dáil Éireann.
18 April - 1,000 delegates from all over Ireland attend the Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis in Dublin. Éamon de Valera is elected President of the organisation.
19 April - Sinn Féin proposes an Executive Council of the Irish National Alliance to challenge the right of any foreign parliament to make laws for Ireland.
13 May - Irish Republican Army volunteers, Dan Breen and Seán Treacy are injured while rescuing Seán Hogan from custody in County Limerick.
14 June - Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown arrive in Clifden, County Galway following their 1,900 mile transatlantic flight.
12 September - Dáil Éireann is declared illegal. There are raids on Sinn Féin centres and Ernest Blythe is arrested.
9 November - Labour leader James Larkin is arrested in New York. He is charged with circulating a publication advocating the forcible overthrow of the government.

5 May Seamus Ennis born. Irish player of uilleann pipes, singer, and folk-song collector.

25 October Ireland 1 - 1 England (in Belfast)^[1]

Winners: Belfast Celtic

Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Glentoran

26 January - Tom Aherne, soccer player (d.1999).
30 January - Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (d.1999).
23 February - Johnny Carey, soccer player and manager (d.1995).
18 March - G. E. M. Anscombe, analytic philosopher (d.2001).
3 April - Myles McKeon, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Bunbury, Australia.
3 April - Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, poet and writer (d.1982).
9 April - Gordon Lambert, art collector, member of the Seanad (d.2005).
1 May - Dan O'Herlihy, actor (d.2005).
5 May - Séamus Ennis, Uilleann piper, singer and folk-song collector (d.1982).
9 May - Joseph Bermingham, former Irish Labour Party TD (d.1995).
9 May - Anne Yeats, painter and stage designer (d.2001).
8 June - Constantine Fitzgibbon, historian and novelist (d.1983).
10 June - Kevin O'Flanagan, physician, rugby and soccer player and Olympic official (d.2006).

7 July - Fred Kiernan, soccer player (d.1981).
15 July - Iris Murdoch, novelist and philosopher (d.1999).
21 July - Roderick Gill, cricketer (d.1983).
15 August - Benedict Kiely, writer, broadcaster and journalist (d.2007).
15 September - Michael ffrench-O'Carroll, Independent TD and Senator (d.2007).
25 October - Jimmy Rudd, soccer player (d.1985).
27 October - James Joseph Magennis, awarded Victoria Cross for taking part in Operation Struggle in 1945 (d.1986).
1 November - Gerard Slevin, former Chief Herald of Ireland (d 1997).
5 November - Seamus Twomey, twice chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (d.1989).
11 December - Digby McLaren, geologist and palaeontologist in Canada (d.2004).

9 January - John Danaher, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 near Pretoria, South Africa (b.1860).
13 February - William Temple, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 at Rangiriri, New Zealand (b.1833).
21 February - John O'Connor Power, Irish Nationalist politician and MP (b.1846).
6 March - Pierce McCan, member of 1st Dáil representing Tipperary East.
20 March - William Hone, cricketer (b.1842).
30 April - John Pentland Mahaffy, classicist (b.1839).
8 June - Coslett Herbert Waddell, priest and botanist (b.1858).
25 June - William Martin Murphy, Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party) MP, newspaper proprietor, leader of employer's syndicate in the Dublin Lockout of 1913 (b.1844).
25 July - Samuel McCaughey, pastoralist, politician and philanthropist in Australia (b.1835).
5 September - Joseph Ivess, member of the New Zealand House of Representatives (b.1844).
31 December - Con Lehane, socialist active in the Irish Socialist Republican Party, the Social Democratic Federation, and the Socialist Party of Great Britain (b.1877).

^ Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 162. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.