1897 in Ireland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s;
See also:	1897 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1897 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1897 in Ireland.

Events[edit]

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.

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).

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).

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 155. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.