1910 in Ireland
Events in the year 1910 in Ireland .
Events
8 January – Sinéad Flanagan married future Irish president Éamon de Valera in Dublin .
21 February – Irish Unionist members of the Westminster Parliament elected Sir Edward Carson as party leader, replacing Walter Long .
23 February – St Patrick's College, Maynooth , became a recognised college of the National University of Ireland .
May – The Irish Countrywomen's Association was founded, as the Society of the United Irishwomen, by a group of educated and largely Protestant women in Bree, County Wexford .[ 1]
June – Bridget Dowling eloped to London with Alois Hitler, Jr., a kitchen porter at the Shelbourne Hotel , Dublin, and half-brother to Adolf .
July – Irish republican and socialist leader James Connolly returned to Ireland from the United States.
August – The first passenger flight in Ulster : Harry Ferguson piloted Miss Rita Marr.[ 2]
29 August – The Aero Club of Ireland held its inaugural aviation meeting at Leopardstown Racecourse .
11 September – English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine made an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea but landed some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay .[ 3] [ 4]
20 October – RMS Olympic was launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast . At 45,324 gross tons, she was the largest ship afloat. Her sister ship RMS Titanic was launched 16 months later.
November
3 December – Sir Edward Carson and James Campbell were re-elected unopposed as Unionist Members of Parliament for Trinity College Dublin .
The Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland was created by merger of the Presbytery of Antrim and Remonstrant Synod of Ulster.[ 6]
Lilian Bland built and flew her own biplane glider , the first built in Ireland, from Carnmoney Hill ; an engine was fitted soon afterwards[ 7]
Arts and literature
13 January – The play Deirdre of the Sorrows by John Millington Synge (died 1909) was performed for the first time at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin.
5 May – Padraic Colum 's play Thomas Muskerry premiered at the Abbey Theatre.
7 May – Annie Horniman withdrew financial support from the Abbey Theatre in protest at its refusal to close on the death of King Edward VII the previous day.
August – The Kalem Company of New York began shooting the first of several films partly on location in Ireland, A Lad from Old Ireland Beaufort, County Kerry , with Canadian Irish director Sidney Olcott . This was the first production by an American film studio to be shot outside the United States.
September – Lord Dunsany 's short story collection A Dreamer's Tales
3 November – The oldest céilí band in Ireland, The Kilfenora Céilí Band was founded in Kilfenora , County Clare.[ 8]
The Cork Public Museum opened.
Terence MacSwiney 's first play, The Last Warriors of Coole , was produced.Ella Young 's first book of stories, Celtic Wonder Tales , was published with illustrations by Maud Gonne .
Sport
International 12 February Ireland 1–1 England (in Belfast )[ 9]
19 March Ireland 1–0 Scotland (in Belfast)[ 9]
11 April Wales 4–1 Ireland (in Wrexham )[ 9]
Births
1 January – Charles Billingsley , cricketer (died 1951).[ 10]
2 January – Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin , politician (died 1991).
6 January – James "Lugs" Branigan , police detective and boxer (died 1986).
16 January – William Bedell Stanford , classical scholar and senator (died 1984).
29 January – Colin Middleton , artist (died 1983).
10 April – Fintan Coogan Snr , Fine Gael party Teachta Dála (TD) (died 1984).
13 April – Aloys Fleischmann , composer and musicologist (died 1992).
9 May – Barbara Woodhouse , dog trainer (died 1988).
20 May – Johnny Callanan , Fianna Fáil party TD (died 1982).
5 June – Ham Lambert , cricketer and rugby player (died 2006).
12 June – Bill Naughton , playwright and author (died 1992).
27 June – Nicholas Mansergh , historian (died 1991).
1 July – Dan Spring , Gaelic footballer , trade unionist and Labour Party TD (died 1988).
4 July – George Otto Simms , Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Archbishop of Armagh (died 1991).
1 August – Cathal Gannon , harpsichord maker and fortepiano restorer (died 1999).
8 August – Bobby Kirk , ice hockey player (died 1970).
14 August – Eddie Ingram , cricketer (died 1973).
24 September – Robert Alexander , rugby and cricket player (died 1943).
1 November – Michael Lyons , Fine Gael party TD and Senator (died 1991).
15 November – Geoffrey Toone , actor (died 2005).
19 November – Manliff Barrington , motorcycle racer (died 1999).
26 November – Cyril Cusack , actor (died 1993).
29 November – Máirtín Ó Direáin , poet (died 1988).
10 December – Vivion de Valera , barrister, managing director of The Irish Press , Fianna Fáil party TD representing Dublin North-West (died 1982).
22 December – James Boucher , cricketer (died 1995).
26 December – Stephen Coughlan , Labour Party TD and Mayor of Limerick (died 1994).
Full date unknown
Deaths
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