1900 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1900 in Ireland.

Events[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

Football[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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).
• 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).
• October – Frank Ryan, tenor (died 1965).
• 2 November – William Norton, Labour Party (Ireland) leader, TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1963).
• 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).
  • Nano Reid, painter (died 1981).

Deaths[edit]

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).
• 7 March – Thomas Preston, scientist (born 1860).
• 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).
• 2 July – Thomas Farrell, sculptor (born 1827).
• 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 Workman, entomologist and arachnologist (born 1843).

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