1897 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1897 in Ireland.
Events
- The Irish Motor Car and Cycle Company is established.
Arts and literature
- 26 May - Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is first published, in London.
- 13 December - The third Theatre Royal opens in Dublin.
- The first Feis Ceoil musical and cultural festival is organised in Dublin by Dr. Annie Patterson, Edward Martyn and Dr. George Sigerson.[1]
- George Sigerson's translated anthology Bards of the Gael and Gall[2] and his daughter Dora Sigerson Shorter's The Fairy Changeling, and Other Poems are published.[3]
- Amanda McKittrick Ros publishes Irene Iddesleigh.
Sport
Football
- International
- Winners: Glentoran
- Winners: Cliftonville 3 - 1 Sherwood Foresters
Births
- 1 March - Robert Bowers, cricketer (died 1956).
- 23 March - John Lighton Synge, mathematician and physicist (died 1995).
- 4 April - Francis Evans, British diplomat (died 1983).
- 26 May - Ernie O'Malley, prominent officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and on anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and a writer (died 1957).
- 10 June - Moss (Maurice) Twomey, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (died 1978).
- 1 July - Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence (died 1980).
- 18 August - Enid Starkie, literary critic and biographer (died 1970).
- 1 September - Andy Kennedy, footballer (died 1963).
- 26 November - Thomas Derrig, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1956).
- 3 December - Kate O'Brien, novelist (died 1974).
Full date unknown
- Eddie Doyle, Kilkenny hurler (died 1948).
- Bob Fullam, soccer player (died 1974).
- Mainie Jellett, painter (died 1944).
- Maurice Moore, Irish republican who fought in the Irish War of Independence (executed 1921).
- Seán Óg Murphy, Cork hurler, Gaelic Athletic Association administrator (died 1965).
- Ed Reavy, fiddle player and songwriter (died 1988).
Deaths
- 21 January - Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (born 1816).
- 24 January - Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, novelist (born 1855).
- 3 March - Garrett Byrne, Irish nationalist and MP (born 1829).
- 19 March - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, geographer (born 1810).
- 1 April - William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin (born 1828).
- 11 October - Charles W. Jones, lawyer and United States Senator in Florida (born 1834).
- 31 October - Samuel Haughton, scientific writer (born 1821).
- 25 November - John Coleman, United States Marine, recipient of Medal of Honor for his actions in 1871 during the Korean Expedition (born 1847).
- 8 December - Mary O'Connell, nurse during the American Civil War (born 1814).
Full date unknown
- William R. Roberts, diplomat, Fenian Society member and United States Representative from New York (born 1830).
References
- ↑ McGilloway, Ken (2011). George Sigerson: Poet, Patriot Scientist and Scholar. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation. ISBN 9781903688212.
- ↑ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F. et al., ed. (1993). "Irish Poetry – Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic". In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press; MJF Books. p. 633.
- ↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- 1 2 3 Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 155. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.
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