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List of events
March – construction in Queenstown of St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh , concludes with completion of the spire.
4 April – 25,000 National Volunteers assemble at the Phoenix Park , Dublin . John Redmond takes the salute from under the statue of Charles Stewart Parnell on Sackville Street .
5 April – at the National Volunteers convention at the Mansion House, Dublin , John Redmond praises their response to World War I .
7 May – sinking of the RMS Lusitania : British ocean liner RMS Lusitania is sunk by Imperial German Navy U-boat U-20 about 11 miles (18 km) off Old Head of Kinsale , County Cork , killing 1,198 civilians en route from New York to Liverpool , among them the Irish-born art dealer and benefactor Sir Hugh Lane and Irish composer and conductor Thomas O'Brien Butler .
Recruitment poster issued from Dublin, July 1915
Arts and literature [ edit ]
1 February – Helen Waddell 's first play, The Spoiled Buddha , is premiered at the Opera House, Belfast, by the Ulster Literary Society.
Francis Ledwidge 's poems Songs of the Fields published.
James Stephens ' poems The Adventures of Seumas Beg: the Rocky Road to Dublin and Songs from the Clay are published.[1]
The first dramatic film made in Ireland, Fun at Finglas Fair , is directed by F. J. McCormick . It is never released as all prints are destroyed in the Easter Rising of April 1916.[2]
11 January – Paddy Mayne , international rugby union footballer and decorated soldier (died 1955 ).
13 January – Kit Ahern , Fianna Fáil TD (died 2007).
21 January – Andy O'Brien , Fine Gael senator from County Cavan (died 2006).
25 January – Liam Cunningham , Fianna Fáil TD (died 1976).
7 February – Mark Clinton , Fine Gael TD , Minister for Agriculture and MEP (died 2001).
15 February – Sam Kydd , actor (died 1982 ).
15 March – Micho Russell , tin whistle player and collector of traditional music and folklore (died 1994).
9 April – Leonard Wibberley , author (died 1983).
2 May – George Harrison , member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and alleged gun-runner (died 2004).
3 May – Walter Macken , novelist, dramatist and actor (died 1967).
17 May – Oisín Kelly , sculptor (died 1981).
6 August – Tom O'Reilly , Cavan Gaelic footballer and independent TD for Cavan 1944–1948 (died 1995)
28 August – Patrick Hennessy , painter (died 1980).
16 September – Eddie Filgate , Fianna Fáil TD (died 2017).
16 October – Jim Young , Cork hurler (died 1992).
18 September – James Tully , Labour Party TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1992).
7 November – Bill Hayes , soccer player (died 1987).
20 December – Noel Browne , politician, Cabinet Minister (died 1997).
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20 January – Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun , businessman, politician, and philanthropist (born 1840 ).
26 January – Michael Sullivan , physician, professor and politician in Canada (born 1838 ).
28 January – David Dickson Rogers , politician in Ontario (born 1845 ).
14 February – Cornelius Coughlan , soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi , India (born 1828 ).
24 April – Frederick William Hall , soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium (born 1885 ).
7 May – on board RMS Lusitania
29 June – Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa , Fenian leader (born 1831 ).
2 August – William Abraham , Irish Nationalist MP (born 1840 ).
21 August – Gerald Robert O'Sullivan , recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 at Gallipoli , Turkey (born 1888 ).
21 August – Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford , peer and soldier (born 1864 ).
25 September – Joseph Lynch , cricketer (born 1880 ).
10 October – Albert Cashier , soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War , physically female, but lived as a man (born 1843 ).
21 December – Violet Florence Martin , author (born 1862 ).
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