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List of events in Ireland in 1902
Events in the year 1902 in Ireland .
2 January –
Dan Keating , Ireland's oldest man and last surviving veteran of the
Irish War of Independence (died 2007)
[4]
13 January –
Francis Connell , cricketer (died 1983).
20 January –
Kevin Barry ,
Irish Republican Army member (executed for his part in an operation resulting in the deaths of three British soldiers 1920).
26 February –
Jim Hurley , veteran of the
Irish War of Independence ,
Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler (died 1965).
25 April –
Cormac Breslin ,
Fianna Fáil party
Teachta Dála (TD) and
Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (died 1978).
29 April –
Francis Stuart , writer (died 2000).
20 July –
Jimmy Kennedy , songwriter (died 1984).
21 July –
William Bernard Barry , politician in the United States (died 1946 in the United States).
16 August –
Arthur Douglas , cricketer and rugby player (died 1937 in Northern Ireland).
4 September –
Patrick Lenihan , Fianna Fáil party TD (died 1970).
11 September –
Frank Ryan , member of the
Irish Republican Army , editor of
An Phoblacht ,
leftist activist and leader of Irish volunteers on the
Republican side in the
Spanish Civil War (died 1944).
16 September –
James Dillon , former leader of the
Fine Gael party, TD and government minister (died 1986).
2 October –
Alexander Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester , born Viscount Mandeville, British Royal Navy officer and hereditary peer (died 1977 in England).
16 December –
Billy King , cricketer (died 1987).
29 December –
Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford , politician, dramatist, and poet (died 1961).
December –
Maurice Gerard Moynihan , civil servant and writer (died 1999).
Full date unknown
20 January –
Aubrey Thomas de Vere , poet and critic (born 1814).
12 February –
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava , politician, diplomat, and traveller (born 1826 in Florence).
10 March –
C. Y. O'Connor , engineer in Australia (born 1843).
21 April –
Ethna Carbery , writer and poet (born 1866).
29 May –
Edward Harrington ,
Member of Parliament (MP) for
West Kerry 1885–1892 (born c.1852)
20 July –
John William Mackay , businessman in the United States (born 1831).
22 July –
Thomas Croke ,
Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Cashel and Emly , founder patron of the
Gaelic Athletic Association (born 1824).
23 December –
Lucius Gwynn , cricketer (born 1873).
Full date unknown
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b Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History . Cork: Mercier Press. p. 380.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
460–461 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
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b
c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts . Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 157.
ISBN
0-86281-874-5 .
^ Muircheartaigh, Micheál (2007). From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain: travels and stories from Ireland's most beloved broadcaster . Dublin London: Penguin Ireland Penguin Books.
ISBN
9780141911649 .