1909 in Ireland

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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 an aircraft 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.
Commencement of fieldwork for the multidisciplinary Clare Island Survey, under the direction of Robert Lloyd Praeger.

24 March - J. M. Synge, author and playwright, dies in Dublin aged 38 of Hodgkin's disease. His only comedy The Tinker's Wedding has its première on 11 November at His Majesty's Theatre in London.
1 April - Lennox Robinson's first play, The Cross Roads, is performed at the Abbey Theatre (Dublin) of which he becomes manager later in the year.
22 July - Widowed Irish-born painter John Lavery marries Irish American painter Hazel Martyn.
20 August - The famous tenor Enrico Caruso performs at the Theatre Royal in Dublin.
20 December - The first dedicated cinema in Ireland, the Volta Cinematograph, opens in Dublin under the management of James Joyce.^[1]
Herbert Hughes' collection of folk songs, Irish Country Songs, including "She Moved Through the Fair" with words largely composed by Padraic Colum, is published.
Ella Young's first work of Irish folklore, The Coming of Lugh, is published.

13 February England 4 - 0 Ireland (in Bradford)^[2]

15 March Scotland 5 - 0 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[2]

20 March Ireland 2 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)^[2]

Winners: Linfield

Winners: Cliftonville 0 - 0, 2 - 1 Bohemians

9 January - Patrick Peyton, the Rosary Priest (died 1992).
30 January - George Crothers, cricketer (died 1982).
1 February - Timothy McAuliffe, Labour Party politician (died 1985).
8 March - Francis MacManus, novelist (died 1965).
3 April - Knox Cunningham, barrister, businessman and Ulster Unionist politician (died 1976).
19 April - Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, cryptanalyst, chess player and chess writer (died 1974).
24 April - Robert Farren (Roibeárd Ó Faracháin), poet (died 1984).
30 April - F. E. McWilliam, sculptor (died 1992).
4 June - Robert Dudley Edwards, historian (died 1988).
24 July - Geoffrey Bing, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (died 1977).
31 July - Martin White, Kilkenny hurler (died 2011).
1 August - W. R. Rodgers, poet, essayist, book reviewer, radio broadcaster, scriptwriter, lecturer, teacher and Presbyterian minister (died 1969).
4 October - Paddy Moore, soccer player (died 1951).
7 October - Michael O'Neill, nationalist politician and MP (died 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 (died 1992).
4 November - Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, cricketer, squash player and art collector (died 1982).

James Auchmuty, historian (died 1981).
Muriel Brandt, artist (died 1981).
Jack Stanley Gibson, surgeon and writer (died 2005).
Gabriel Hayes, sculptor, designer of Irish coins (died 1978).
Francis MacManus, novelist (died 1965).
David Beers Quinn, historian (died 2002).
W. R. Rodgers, poet and writer (died 1969).
Cecilia Thackaberry, Presentation Sisters nun, killed in Nigeria performing relief work (died 1969).

10 January - John Conness, United States Senator from California from 1863 till 1869. (born 1821)
4 February - James Lynam Molloy, poet, songwriter and composer (b.c1837).
24 March - William Lundon, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (born 1839).
24 March - John Millington Synge, dramatist, poet and writer (born 1871).
4 April - Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet (born 1833).
22 May - Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet, Liberal Party MP (born 1839).
15 July - George Tyrrell, expelled Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (died 1861).
1 December - William Joseph Corbet, nationalist politician and MP (born 1824).

↑ Ellman, Richard (1982) [1959]. James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 303. ISBN 0-19-281465-6.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.