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List of events in Ireland in 1903
Events in the year 1903 in Ireland .
Events
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
Arts and literature
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
Motor racing
Births
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
Deaths
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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"Dun Emer & Cuala Press" .
University of Florida .
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b Miller, Liam (1974). The Dun Emer Press . New York: The Typophiles.
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"A Time-Line of Poetry in English" . Representative Poetry Online . University of Toronto.
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c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts . Belfast: Appletree Press. pp. 157–158.
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