1904 in Ireland

Events

*26 April - King Edward VII and his Queen arrive in Kingstown. The royal couple attend the Punchestown Races for the day.
*2 May - The King and Queen travel to Waterford where they stay at Lismore Castle, the home of the Duke of Devonshire.
*2 June - St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast nave is consecrated.
* Construction of Government Buildings, Merrion Street starts (finishes 1922)

Arts and literature

*16 June - Bloomsday: James Joyce meets Nora Barnacle on this day and later sets his novel Ulysses on this day.
*27 December - The Irish National Theatre Society (Abbey Theatre) opens to the public for the first time. They witness a play by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.
*James Joyce's "Eveline" was first published.
*Arthur Griffith's "The Resurrection of Hungary" was published.

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Football

*International::12 March Ireland 1 - 3 England (in Belfast)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 158|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::21 March Wales 0 - 1 Ireland (in Bangor)::26 March Ireland 1 - 1 Scotland (in Dublin)

*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Linfield 5 - 1 Derry Celtic

*Shelbourne becomes the second Dublin team to join the Irish Football League, after Bohemians, who joined the previous year.

Births

January to June

*16 January - Frederick Boland, diplomat, first Irish ambassador to Britain and to the United Nations (d.1985).
*26 January - Seán MacBride, former Clann na Poblachta TD, Cabinet Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Winner (d.1988).
*19 February - Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, writer (d.1950).
*29 February - James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn, soldier and politician (d.1979).
*7 March - Jim Ganly, cricketer and rugby player (d.1976).
*27 April - Cecil Day-Lewis, poet and writer, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, (d.1972).
*7 May - David Sullivan, labour leader in USA (d.1976).
*5 June - Derrick Kennedy, cricketer (d.1976).

July to December

*9 September - Jack Lawrence, cricketer (d.1984).
*2 October - Dermot Boyle, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (d.1993).
*21 October - Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist (d.1967).
*13 December - William McCrea, astronomer and mathematician (d.1999).

Full date unknown

*Dinny Barry-Murphy, Cork hurler (d.1973).
*Molly Keane, novelist and playwright (d.1996).
*Michael MacLaverty, novelist (d.1992).
*John "Pondoro" Taylor, hunter and writer (d.1969).

Deaths

*22 January - George Salmon, mathematician and theologian (b.1819).
*21 March - William Russell Grace, businessman and first Roman Catholic mayor of New York (b.1832).
*5 April - Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (b.1822).
*25 May - Richard Harte Keatinge, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Chundairee, India (b.1825).
*20 October - Richard Phelan, fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b.1828).
*16 November - James Cooney, lawyer and Democratic politician in Missouri (b.1848).

Full date unknown

*Timothy J. Campbell, Democrat U.S. Representative from New York (b.1840).
*Edwin Hayes, watercolourist (b.1819).

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