1903 in Ireland

List of events in Ireland in 1903

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See also:| 1903 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1903
List of years in Ireland

Events in the year 1903 in Ireland.

## Events

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* 3 January – The Norwegian ship Remittant was towed into quarantine in Queenstown with the entire crew suffering from beriberi.
* 3 February – The proposed canonisation of Oliver Plunkett was discussed in Rome.
* 26–27 February – "Ulysses" Storm: A windstorm passed across Ireland, uprooting 1–3,000 trees in Phoenix Park.[1]
* 26 February – The ocean liner SS Columbus was launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
* 27 February – A meeting at the Mansion House, Dublin, enthusiastically welcomed a movement to establish Saint Patrick's Day as a national holiday.
* 8 March – Charles Gavan Duffy was buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. He was laid to rest near others who took part in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848.
* 9 March – The Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway's Letterkenny and Burtonport Extension was opened.[2]
* 17 March – In Waterford, Saint Patrick's Day was marked as a public holiday (to encourage temperance).
* 26 March – The Chief Secretary for Ireland, George Wyndham, introduced his Irish Land Bill in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
* 31 March – The Lord-Lieutenant announced that Edward VII and Queen Alexandra intended to visit Ireland within the coming year.[3]
* 15 May – The Chief Secretary for Ireland, George Wyndham, asked for support for his Irish Land Bill.
* 23 May – Extracts from the annual report of the British Army showed that there were 35,717 Irishmen in its service.
* 9 June – Trinity College Dublin announced following a vote that it was to award degrees to women. The first women would be admitted in 1904.
* 1 July – The Belfast and Northern Counties Railway became the Northern Counties Committee of the Midland Railway of England.
* 19-27 July – Edward VII made his first visit to Ireland as monarch,[3] landing at Buncrana.
* 14 August – The Land Purchase (Ireland) Act 1903 was passed in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, offering special incentives to landlords to sell their entire estates.
* 5 September – Irish painter Henry Jones Thaddeus was granted permission to paint the first portrait of Pope Pius X.
* 13 November – The 2nd Battalion of The Royal Dublin Fusiliers was welcomed home after nearly 20 years of foreign service.

Undated
* Independent Orange Institution was formed, as a breakaway from the Orange Institution.[4]
* The Pigeon House generating station in Dublin started producing electricity.
* The withdrawal of the last British Royal Navy guard ship to be permanently stationed at Kingstown, the cruiser HMS Melampus (1890), took place.[5]
* The Cork International Exhibition was re-opened.

## Arts and literature

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* January – An Túr Gloine, the cooperative studio for stained glass, was established by Sarah Purser in Dublin.[6]
* 8 October – J. M. Synge's play, In the Shadow of the Glen, was first performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin.
* 7 December – The first Irish language opera, Muirgheis, with music by Thomas O'Brien Butler and libretto by Thadgh O'Donoghue was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Dublin.
* Padraic Colum's Broken Soil was performed by W. G. Fay's Irish National Dramatic Company.[7]
* George Moore's short stories The Untilled Field were published.
* 'Æ' (George William Russell)'s The Nuts of Knowledge, lyrical poems old and new was published by Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press at Dundrum, Dublin.[8][9][10]
* W. B. Yeats's poetry collection In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age[11] was published by his sister's Dun Emer Press;[9][10] he also published his essays Ideas of Good and Evil.[12]
* County Cork-born Chicago chief of police Francis O'Neill's collection O'Neill's Music of Ireland was published.

## Sport

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### Association football

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* International
14 February – England 4–0 Ireland (in Wolverhampton)[13]
21 March – Scotland 0–2 Ireland (in Glasgow)[13]
28 March – Ireland 2–0 Wales (in Belfast)[13]
Irish League
Winners: Distillery F.C.
Irish Cup
Winners: Distillery F.C. 3–1 Bohemian F.C.
* Bohemian F.C. became the first Dublin team to join the Irish Football League.
* The Oval football stadium, home of Glentoran F.C., was rebuilt, with the pitch being turned around ninety degrees.

### Motor racing

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* 2 July – The Gordon Bennett Cup race was run on Irish public roads, the first international motor race in Ireland. The winner was Camille Jenatzy.[3]

## Births

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* 15 January – Joe Stynes, Irish Republican and sportsman (died 1991).
* 19 January – Alfred Lane Beit, British politician, art collector and philanthropist, honorary Irish citizen (died 1994).
* 28 January – Kathleen Lonsdale, X-ray crystallographer (died 1971).
* 2 February – Hilton Edwards, actor, director, co–founder of Gate Theatre, born in London (died 1982).
* 5 February – William Teeling, author, traveller and UK politician (died 1975).
* 23 February – Alec Mackie, association football player (died 1984 in Northern Ireland).
* 11 March – Michael Hilliard, Fianna Fáil party Teachta Dála (TD), Cabinet minister and Member of the European Parliament (died 1982).
* 13 March – Joseph Blowick second leader of the Clann na Talmhan party, TD and Cabinet minister (died 1970).
* 5 April – Leo Rowsome, teacher, player, and maker of uilleann pipes (died 1970).
* 12 April – Paddy Collins, Cork hurler (died 1995).
* 25 May – Ewart Milne, poet (died 1987).
* 8 June – Harry Duggan, association football player (died 1968).
* 17 July – Dinny Barry-Murphy, Cork hurler (died 1973).
* 18 July – Charles Hill, cricketer (died 1982).
* 5 August – Achey Kelly, cricketer (died 1961).
* 17 September – Frank O'Connor, short story writer and memoirist (died 1966).
* 6 October – Ernest Walton, physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics (died 1995).
* 23 October – Patrick Cogan, Independent TD (died 1977).
* 1 November – Max Adrian, actor (died 1973).
* 18 December – Harry Forsyth, cricketer (died 2004).

Undated
* Leo Maguire, singer, songwriter and radio broadcaster (died 1985).
* Stanley Woods, motor cycle racer, with 29 Grand Prix wins and 10 Isle of Man TT wins (died 1993).

## Deaths

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* 9 February – Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (born 1816).
* 5 April – Mary Anne Sadlier, novelist (born 1820).
* 24 April – Walter Osborne, impressionist painter (born 1859).
* 27 April – William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand (born 1819).
* 25 July – John Michael Clancy, Democratic Party United States Representative from New York (born 1837).
* 31 August – Charles O'Hea, Catholic Priest, baptised Ned Kelly and ministered to him before he was hanged in 1880 (born c. 1814).
* 12 September – Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (born 1822).
* 22 October – William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (born 1838).
* 24 October – James Adams (chaplain), recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in Afghanistan (1879) (born 1839).

## See also

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* 1903 in Scotland
* 1903 in Wales

## References

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1. ^ "Exceptional weather events" (PDF). Met Éireann. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 May 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
2. ^ "Irish Railways" (PDF). Railscot. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
3. ^ a b c Owens, Cóilín; Joyce, How (May–June 2011). "July 1903: Edward VII, the Gordon Bennett Cup and the Emmet centennial". History Ireland. 19 (3). Dublin. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
4. ^ "Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
5. ^ Lowth, Cormac F. (2014). "Guard-Ships at Kingstown". Dun Laoghaire Journal. 23: 10–19.
6. ^ Bowe, Nicola Gordon (2008). "The Tower of Glass: An Túr Gloine and the early 20th century stained glass revival". Buildingconservation.com. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
7. ^ Fay, W. G. (1935). The Fays of the Abbey Theatre. London: Rich & Cowan. p. 114.
8. ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
9. ^ a b "Dun Emer & Cuala Press". University of Florida.
10. ^ a b Miller, Liam (1974). The Dun Emer Press. New York: The Typophiles.
11. ^ "A Time-Line of Poetry in English". Representative Poetry Online. University of Toronto. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
12. ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael; Boland, Eavan (1971). W. B. Yeats and his World. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 81. ISBN 0-500-13033-7.
13. ^ a b c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. pp. 157–158. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.

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