1910 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to September 4.3 October to December 4.4 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Events

• 8 January - Sinéad Flanagan marries Éamon de Valera in Dublin.
• 21 February - Irish Unionist MPs at Westminster elect Sir Edward Carson as party leader, replacing Walter Long.
• 23 February - St Patrick's College, Maynooth becomes a recognised college of the National University of Ireland.
• 29 August - The Aero Club of Ireland holds its inaugural aviation meeting at Leopardstown Racecourse.
• 3 December - Edward Carson and James Campbell are re-elected unopposed as Unionist representatives for Trinity College Dublin.
• (full date unknown) Irish Countrywomen's Association founded.

[edit] Arts and literature

• 13 January - 'Deirdre of the Sorrows' by John Millington Synge is performed for the first time at the Abbey Theatre.
• 7 May - Anne Horniman withdraws financial support from the Abbey Theatre, in protest because the Theatre refused to close on the death of King Edward VII, who had died the previous day.

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• International

12 February Ireland 1 - 1 England (in Belfast)^[1]

19 March Ireland 1 - 0 Scotland (in Belfast)^[1]

11 April Wales 4 - 1 Ireland (in Wrexham)^[1]

• Irish League

Winners: Cliftonville

`*Irish Cup

Winners: Distillery 1 - 0 Cliftonville

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 1 January - Charles Billingsley, cricketer (d.1951).
• 29 January - Colin Middleton, artist (d.1983).
• 20 May - Johnny Callanan, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1982).
• 5 June - Ham Lambert, cricketer and rugby player (d.2006).
• 12 June - Bill Naughton, playwright and author (d.1992).

[edit] July to September

• 1 July - Dan Spring, Gaelic footballer, trade unionist and Irish Labour Party TD (d.1988).
• 4 July - George Otto Simms, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Archbishop of Armagh (d.1991).
• 1 August - Cathal Gannon, harpsichord maker and fortepiano restorer (d.1999).
• 8 August - Bobby Kirk, ice hockey player (d.1970).
• 14 August - Eddie Ingram, cricketer (d.1973).
• 24 September - Robert Alexander (Irish sportsman) (d.1943).

[edit] October to December

• 1 November - Michael Lyons, Fine Gael TD and Senator (d.1991).
• 15 November - Geoffrey Toone, actor (d.2005).
• 26 November - Cyril Cusack, actor (d.1993).
• 10 December - Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director of The Irish Press, Fianna Fáil TD representing Dublin North West (d.1982).
• 22 December - James Boucher, cricketer (d.1995).
• 26 December - Stephen Coughlan, Irish Labour Party TD and Mayor of Limerick (d.1994).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Manliff Barrington, motorcycle racer (d.1999).
• Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist (d.1992).
• Peter Kavanagh, soccer player (d.1993).
• Paddy Moore, soccer player (d.1951).
• Máirtín Ó Direáin, poet (d.1988).
• Séamus Ó Néill, writer (d.1986).

[edit] Deaths

• 17 February - St. Clair Augustine Mulholland, American Civil War officer (b.1839).
• 6 May - Edward VII of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (b. 1841)
• 30 August - Hedges Eyre Chatterton, Conservative Party MP and Vice-Chancellor of Ireland (b.1819).
• 30 August - George Throssell, second Premier of Western Australia (b.1840).

[edit] References