1903 in Ireland
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Events in the year 1903 in Ireland.
Events
- 3 January â The Norwegian ship Remittant was towed into quarantine in Queenstown with the entire crew suffering from beriberi.
- 3 February â The proposed canonisation of Oliver Plunkett was discussed in Rome.
- 26â27 February â "Ulysses" Storm: A windstorm passed across Ireland, uprooting 1â3,000 trees in Phoenix Park.[1]
- 26 February â The ocean liner SS Columbus was launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
- 27 February â A meeting at the Mansion House, Dublin, enthusiastically welcomed a movement to establish Saint Patrick's Day as a national holiday.
- 8 March â 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 â The Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway's Letterkenny and Burtonport Extension was opened.[2]
- 17 March â In Waterford, Saint Patrick's Day was marked as a public holiday (to encourage temperance).
- 26 March â The Chief Secretary for Ireland, George Wyndham, introduced his Irish Land Bill in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
- 31 March â The Lord-Lieutenant announced that Edward VII and Queen Alexandra intended to visit Ireland within the coming year.[3]
- 15 May â The Chief Secretary for Ireland, George Wyndham, asked for support for his Irish Land Bill.
- 23 May â Extracts from the annual report of the British Army showed that there were 35,717 Irishmen in its service.
- 9 June â 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 â The Belfast and Northern Counties Railway became the Northern Counties Committee of the Midland Railway of England.
- 19â27 July â Edward VII made his first visit to Ireland as monarch,[3] landing at Buncrana.
- 14 August â 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 â Irish painter Henry Jones Thaddeus was granted permission to paint the first portrait of Pope Pius X.
- 13 November â 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
- January â An Túr Gloine, the cooperative studio for stained glass, was established by Sarah Purser in Dublin.[6]
- 8 October â J. M. Synge's play, In the Shadow of the Glen, was first performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin.
- 7 December â 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.
- 'Ã' (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
Association football
- International
- 14 February â England 4â0 Ireland (in Wolverhampton)[13]
- 21 March â Scotland 0â2 Ireland (in Glasgow)[13]
- 28 March â Ireland 2â0 Wales (in Belfast)[13]
- Irish League
- Winners: Distillery F.C.
- Irish Cup
- Winners: Distillery F.C. 3â1 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
- 2 July â 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
- 15 January â Joe Stynes, Irish Republican and sportsman (died 1991).
- 19 January â Alfred Lane Beit, British politician, art collector and philanthropist, honorary Irish citizen (died 1994).
- 28 January â Kathleen Lonsdale, X-ray crystallographer (died 1971).
- 2 February â Hilton Edwards, actor, director, coâfounder of Gate Theatre, born in London (died 1982).
- 5 February â William Teeling, author, traveller and UK politician (died 1975).
- 23 February â Alec Mackie, association football player (died 1984 in Northern Ireland).
- 11 March â Michael Hilliard, Fianna Fáil party TD, Cabinet minister and Member of the European Parliament (died 1982).
- 13 March â Joseph Blowick second leader of the Clann na Talmhan party, TD and Cabinet minister (died 1970).
- 5 April â Leo Rowsome, teacher, player, and maker of uilleann pipes (died 1970).
- 12 April â Paddy Collins, Cork hurler (died 1995).
- 23 May â Shelah Richards, actress, director, and producer (died 1985)
- 25 May â Ewart Milne, poet (died 1987).
- 8 June â Harry Duggan, association football player (died 1968).
- 17 July â Dinny Barry-Murphy, Cork hurler (died 1973).
- 18 July â Charles Hill, cricketer (died 1982).
- 5 August â Achey Kelly, cricketer (died 1961).
- 17 September â Frank O'Connor, short story writer and memoirist (died 1966).
- 6 October â Ernest Walton, physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics (died 1995).
- 23 October â Patrick Cogan, Independent TD (died 1977).
- 1 November â Max Adrian, actor (died 1973).
- 18 December â 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
- 9 February â Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (born 1816).
- 5 April â Mary Anne Sadlier, novelist (born 1820).
- 24 April â Walter Osborne, impressionist painter (born 1859).
- 27 April â William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand (born 1819).
- 25 July â John Michael Clancy, Democratic Party United States Representative from New York (born 1837).
- 31 August â Charles O'Hea, Catholic Priest, baptised Ned Kelly and ministered to him before he was hanged in 1880 (born c. 1814).
- 12 September â Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (born 1822).
- 22 October â William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (born 1838).
- 24 October â James Adams (chaplain), recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in Afghanistan (1879) (born 1839).