29 August – The Aero Club of Ireland held its inaugural aviation meeting at
Leopardstown Racecourse.
11 September – English-born actor-aviator
Robert Loraine made an aeroplane flight from Wales across the
Irish Sea but landed some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in
Dublin Bay.[3][4]
20 October –
RMS Olympic was launched at the
Harland & Wolff shipyard in
Belfast. At 45,324 gross tons, she was the largest ship afloat. Her sister ship
RMS Titanic was launched 16 months later.
November
Reconstruction began of the original city bridge over the
River Suir in
Waterford; it was opened in 1913 by John Redmond.[5]
Lilian Bland built and flew her own
biplaneglider, the first built in Ireland, from
Carnmoney Hill; an engine was fitted soon afterwards[7] and she made her first powered flight in late August.
Arts and literature
13 January – The play Deirdre of the Sorrows by
John Millington Synge (died 1909) was performed for the first time at the
Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
5 May –
Padraic Colum's play Thomas Muskerry premiered at the Abbey Theatre.
7 May –
Annie Horniman withdrew financial support from the Abbey Theatre in protest at its refusal to close on the death of King
Edward VII the previous day.
29 August – The Aero Club of Ireland held its inaugural aviation meeting at
Leopardstown Racecourse.
11 September – English-born actor-aviator
Robert Loraine made an aeroplane flight from Wales across the
Irish Sea but landed some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in
Dublin Bay.[3][4]
20 October –
RMS Olympic was launched at the
Harland & Wolff shipyard in
Belfast. At 45,324 gross tons, she was the largest ship afloat. Her sister ship
RMS Titanic was launched 16 months later.
November
Reconstruction began of the original city bridge over the
River Suir in
Waterford; it was opened in 1913 by John Redmond.[5]
Lilian Bland built and flew her own
biplaneglider, the first built in Ireland, from
Carnmoney Hill; an engine was fitted soon afterwards[7] and she made her first powered flight in late August.
Arts and literature
13 January – The play Deirdre of the Sorrows by
John Millington Synge (died 1909) was performed for the first time at the
Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
5 May –
Padraic Colum's play Thomas Muskerry premiered at the Abbey Theatre.
7 May –
Annie Horniman withdrew financial support from the Abbey Theatre in protest at its refusal to close on the death of King
Edward VII the previous day.