1900 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1900 in Ireland.

Events

• 16 January — Three lion cubs reared by an Irish red setter go on view at Dublin Zoo.
• 17 January — The different sections of the Nationalist Party meet in the Dublin Mansion House's Oak Room to promote national unity.
• 6 February — The Irish National League and Irish National Federation re-unite within the Irish Parliamentary Party, with John Redmond elected as compromise chairman.
• 28 February — Unofficial figures show that the Royal Dublin Fusiliers suffered the most in the Second Boer War.
• 12 March — The 45th Company of the Imperial Yeomanry leave Dublin for service in South Africa.
• 17 March — In celebration of Saint Patrick's Day, the Lord Lieutenant (Earl Cadogan), accompanied by his staff, reviews a military display in the yard of Dublin Castle, followed by dinner and a ball in Saint Patrick's Hall that evening.
• 1 April — The Irish Guards regiment of the British Army is formed by order of Queen Victoria to honour the Irish troops fighting in the Boer War for the British Empire.^[1][2]
• 4 April — Queen Victoria arrives at Kingstown and travels to Dublin where she is greeted by the Lord Mayor and members of the Corporation.
• 7 April — 52,000 children greet Queen Victoria at the Phoenix Park in Dublin.
• 23 April — At a meeting in Loughrea, Douglas Hyde complains of the rapid Anglicisation of the country and the loss of the Irish language.
• 11 May — Edward Carson becomes Solicitor General for England and Wales and is knighted.^[3]
• 13 May — The rift in the Irish Parliamentary Party is healed as John Dillon and John Redmond share a platform for the first time in ten years.
• 5 July — The British War Office issues a list of Irish prisoners of the Boers from the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers. It names 473 men from eight companies.
• 30 November — Oscar Wilde, dramatist and wit, dies in poverty in Paris aged 46.
• 31 December — Ceremonies all over the country mark the closing of the 19th century and the dawning of the 20th.
• Richard J. Ussher and Robert Warren publish The Birds of Ireland (in London).^[4]

Arts and literature

• The Irish Literary Theatre stages three plays at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin with an English company: Edward Martyn's Maeve; Alice Milligan's The Last Feast of the Fianna; and George Moore's satirical The Bending of the Bough: a comedy in five acts (an adaptation of his cousin Martyn's The Tale of a Town).
• 'Moira O'Neill' publishes Songs of the Glens of Antrim.

Sport

Football

• International

24 February Wales 2–0 Ireland (in Llandudno)^[5]

3 March Ireland 0–2 Scotland (in Belfast)^[5]

17 March Ireland 0–2 England (in Dublin: the first International match played here)^[5]

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Cliftonville 2–1 Bohemians

• Derry Celtic is founded and joins the Irish Football League.

Births

January to June

• 10 January — Harry Kernoff, artist (died 1974).
• 19 January — Frank Devlin, badminton player (died 1988).
• January — Michael Donnellan, founder of Clann na Talmhan and TD (died 1964).
• 22 February — Seán Ó Faoláin, short story writer (died 1991).
• 27 February — James Ennis, cricketer (died 1976).
• 6 March — Mark Deering, Fine Gael TD (died 1972).
• 25 May — John Hunt, expert on mediaeval art (died 1976).

July to December

• 10 July — Paul Vincent Carroll, dramatist (died 1968).
• 17 July — Paddy Smith, Fianna Fáil TD and longest-serving member of Dáil Éireann (54 years) (died 1982).
• 22 July — Michael Davern, Fianna Fáil TD for Tipperary South 1948–1965 (died 1973).
• 2 October — Hubert Butler, writer and historian (died 1991).
• 18 October — Sarah Makem, traditional singer (died 1983).
• 23 October — Paddy Ahern, Cork hurler (died 1971).
• 19 November — Pamela Hinkson, writer (died 1982).
• 4 December — Tom Farquharson, soccer player (died 1970).
• 23 December — Noel Purcell, actor (died 1985).

Full date unknown

• John Stewart Collis, writer and pioneer ecologist (died 1984) and his twin Robert Collis, physician and writer (died 1975).
• Eudie Coughlan, Cork hurler (died 1987).
• Peter Kerley, radiologist (died 1978).
• Seosamh Mac Grianna, writer (died 1990).
• William Norton, Labour Party (Ireland) leader, TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1963).
• Nano Reid, painter (died 1981).
• Frank Ryan, tenor (died 1965).

Deaths

Oscar Wilde

Sir Frederic William Burton

• 19 January — William Larminie, poet and folklorist (born 1849).
• 23 January — Abraham Boulger, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1835).
• 23 January — James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (born 1822).
• 16 March — Frederick William Burton, painter (born 1816).
• 22 March — Thomas Murphy, recipient of the Victoria Cross for bravery at sea in saving life in a storm off the Andaman Islands in 1867 (born 1839).
• 26 April — John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada (born 1816).
• 12 November — Marcus Daly, businessman in America (born 1841).
• 30 November — Oscar Wilde, playwright, novelist, poet (born 1854).
• 14 December — Paddy Ryan, boxer (born 1851).

Full date unknown

• Thomas Preston, scientist (born 1860)
• Thomas Workman, entomologist and arachnologist (born 1844)

References