1907 in Ireland

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Events

• 2 January - A new system of rail cars running from Dublin Amiens Street station to Howth is introduced.
• 5 January - The first motor show under the auspices of the Irish Automobile Club opens at the Royal Dublin Society.
• 6 January - The Sunday provisions of the new Licensing Act come into operation in Dublin and four other cities. Sunday opening hours will be from 2pm to 5pm.
• 26 January - The first performance of J. M. Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin triggers a week of rioting.^[1]
• 4 May - The Irish International Exhibition opens in Dublin.^[2]
• 7 May - Augustine Birrell introduces the Irish Councils Bill, rejected by a Nationalist convention on 21 May and dropped by the government on 3 June.^[3]
• 6 July - The Crown Jewels of Ireland, valued at £50,000, are stolen from the safe in Dublin Castle.^[4]
• 10–11 July - State visit of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to visit the Irish International Exhibition in Dublin.^[5]
• 26 July - A large rally is held in Belfast City Hall in support of the ongoing Dockers and Carters Strike.
• 4 September - An Irish Parliamentary Party meeting in the Mansion House, Dublin is disrupted by Sinn Féin who hold a demonstration outside.
• 17 October - The Marconi transatlantic wireless telegraphy service between Galway and Canada is opened. Messages are exchanged without a hitch.
• 9 November - The Irish International Exhibition ends after six months. An estimated 2.75 million people visited it, including a large number from abroad.^[2]

Arts and literature

• 26 January - Large sections of the audience boo the opening performance of J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre.
• 28 January - Another performance of The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre is interrupted by the audience who continue to boo, hiss and shout.
• 4 February - In a public debate at the Abbey Theatre, the poet W. B. Yeats denies trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of The Playboy of the Western World.
• May - Publication of James Joyce's poems Chamber Music.
• Publication of Padraic Colum's poems Wild Earth.
• Peadar Kearney and Patrick Heeney write A Soldier's Song (with English language lyrics); it will become Amhrán na bhFiann, the national anthem of the Republic of Ireland.^[6]
• Elizabeth Bowen moves with her mother from Ireland to England.

Sport

Football

• International

16 February England 1 - 0 Ireland (in Liverpool)^[7]

23 February Ireland 2 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)^[7]

16 March Scotland 3 - 0 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[7]

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Cliftonville 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Shelbourne

Golf

• British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: May Hezlet).

Births

• 21 February - Colville Deverell, cricketer and politician (died 1995).
• 15 May - John Galvin, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1963).
• 13 July - John David Gwynn, cricketer (died 1998).
• 14 August - H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist MP (died 1989).
• 14 September - Edel Quinn, lay missionary (died 1944).
• 8 October - J. G. Devlin, actor (died 1991).
• 28 October - John Hewitt, poet (died 1987).
• 1 November - Bill Loughery, cricketer (died 1977).
• 19 December - Jimmy McLarnin, boxer (died 2004).

Full date unknown

• Robert Malachy Burke, Christian Socialist and philanthropist (died 1998).
• Theodore William Moody, historian (died 1984).
• Seamus Murphy, sculptor (died 1975).
• Áine Ní Cheanainn, educationalist (died 1999)
• Paul O'Dwyer, lawyer and politician in the United States (died 1998).
• Dan O'Keeffe, Kerry Gaelic footballer (died 1967).
• Margot Ruddock, actress, poet and singer (died 1951).
• Henry Tyrell-Smith, motor cycle racer (died 1982).

Deaths

January to June

• 16 January - Daniel John O'Donoghue, printer, labour leader and politician in Ontario (born 1844).
• 20 January - Agnes Mary Clerke, astronomer and writer (born 1842).
• 31 January - Timothy Eaton, businessman in Canada, founded Eaton's department store (born 1834).
• 11 February - William Howard Russell, journalist (born 1821).
• 16 March - John O'Leary, Irish poet and fenian. (born 1830 in Ireland).
• 9 April - Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (born 1853).
• 1 May - John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist and historian of economic thought (born 1823).
• 10 June - Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (born 1822).

July to December

• 8 July - John Horgan, politician and member of the Western Australian Legislative Council (born 1834).
• 3 August - Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor (born 1848).
• 17 November - Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy officer, explorer in Canadian Arctic Archipelago (born 1819).
• 17 December - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences (born 1824).

Full date unknown

• James Brenan, artist (born 1837).
• Robert Cain, brewer and businessman (born 1826).
• Denis Kearney, politician in America (born 1847).

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