1907 in Ireland

Events

*2 January - A new system of rail cars running from Amien Street in Dublin to Howth is introduced.
*5 January - The first motor show, under the auspices of the Irish Automobile Club, opens in the RDS Dublin.
*6 January - The Sunday provisions of the new Licensing Act come into operation in Dublin and four other cities. Sunday opening hours will be from 2pm to 5pm.
*26 January - first performance of John Millington Synge's play "The Playboy of the Western World" at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin triggers a week of rioting. [cite web|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/curtainup/story/0,12830,937744,00.html|title="The Playboy of the Western World, Dublin, 1907", The Guardian|accessdate=2008-05-16]
*7 May - Augustine Birrell introduces the Irish Councils Bill, rejected by a Nationalist convention on 21 May and dropped by the government on 3 June. [cite book | last=Moody, TW & Martin, FX and Byrne, JF| year=1982 |title=A New History of Ireland | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Ireland | pages=p 379]
*6 July - Irish State Jewels, valued at £50,000, are stolen from the safe in Dublin Castle.
*4 September - An Irish Parliamentary Party meeting in the Mansion House is disrupted by Sinn Féin who hold a demonstration outside.
*17 October - The Marconi transatlantic wireless telegraphy service between Galway and Canada is opened. Messages are exchanged without a hitch.
*9 November - The Irish International Exhibition ends after six months. An estimated 3 million people visited it, including a large number from abroad.

Arts and literature

*26 January - Large sections of the audience boo a performance of The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre.
*28 January - Another performance of The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre is interrupted by the audience who continue to boo, hiss and shout.
*4 February - In a public debate at the Abbey Theatre the poet William Butler Yeats denies trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of The Playboy of the Western World.

port

Football

*International::16 February England 1 - 0 Ireland (in Liverpool)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 159|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::23 February Ireland 2 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)::16 March Scotland 3 - 0 Ireland (in Glasgow)
*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Cliftonville 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Shelbourne

Golf

*British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: May Hezlet).

Births

*21 February - Colville Deverell, cricketer and politician (d.1995).
*15 May - John Galvin, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1963).
*13 July - John David Gwynn, cricketer (d.1998).
*14 August - H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist MP (d.1989).
*14 September - Edel Quinn, lay missionary (d.1944).
*8 October - J. G. Devlin, actor (d.1991).
*28 October - John Harold Hewitt, poet (d.1987).
*1 November - Bill Loughery, cricketer (d.1977).
*19 December - Jimmy McLarnin, boxer (d.2004).

Full date unknown

*Robert Malachy Burke, Christian Socialist and philanthropist (d.1998).
*Theodore William Moody, historian (d.1984).
*Seamus Murphy, sculptor (d.1975).
*Paul O'Dwyer, lawyer and politician in the United States (d.1998).
*Dan O'Keefe, Kerry Gaelic footballer.
*Margot Ruddock, actress, poet and singer (d.1951).
*H G Tyrell Smith, motor cycle racer.

Deaths

January to June

*16 January - Daniel John O'Donoghue, printer, labour leader and politician in Ontario (b.1844).
*20 January - Agnes Mary Clerke, astronomer and writer (b.1842).
*31 January - Timothy Eaton, businessman in Canada, founded Eaton's department store (b.1834).
*11 February - William Howard Russell, journalist (b.1821).
*9 April - Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (b.1853).
*1 May - John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist and historian of economic thought (b.1823).
*10 June - Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (b.1822).

July to December

*8 July - John Horgan, politician and member of the Western Australian Legislative Council (b.1834).
*3 August - Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor (b.1848).
*17 November - Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy officer, explorer in Canadian Arctic Archipelago (b.1819).
*17 December - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences (b.1824).

Full date unknown

*James Brenan, artist (b.1837).
*Robert Cain, brewer and businessman (b.1826).
*Dennis Kearney, politician in America (b.1847).

References