1919 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 6 References

Events

• 21 January - Dáil Éireann meets for the very first time in the Round Room of the Mansion House, Dublin. An independent Irish Republic is declared. In the first shots of the Anglo-Irish War, two Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) men are killed in Tipperary.
• 3 February - Éamon de Valera, the leader of Sinn Féin, and two other prisoners escape from Lincoln Prison in England. The prison break was personally arranged by Michael Collins and Harry Boland.
• 1 April - Fifty-two members of Sinn Féin attend the second meeting of Dáil Éireann. Seán T. O'Kelly is elected Ceann Comhairle and Éamon de Valera is elected Príomh Aire.
• 18 April - 1,000 delegates from all over Ireland attend the Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis in Dublin. Éamon de Valera is elected President of the organisation.
• 19 April - Sinn Féin proposes an Executive Council of the Irish National Alliance to challenge the right of any foreign parliament to make laws for Ireland.
• 13 May - Irish Republican Army volunteers, Dan Breen and Seán Treacy are injured while rescuing Seán Hogan from custody in County Limerick.
• 14 June - Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown arrive in Clifden, County Galway following their 1,900 mile transatlantic flight.
• 12 September - Dáil Éireann is declared illegal. There are raids on Sinn Féin centres and Ernest Blythe is arrested.
• 9 November - Labour leader James Larkin is arrested in New York. He is charged with circulating a publication advocating the forcible overthrow of the government.

Arts and literature

• 5 May Seamus Ennis born. Irish player of uilleann pipes, singer, and folk-song collector.

Sport

• International

25 October Ireland 1 - 1 England (in Belfast)^[1]

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Glentoran

Births

January to June

• 26 January - Tom Aherne, soccer player (d.1999).
• 30 January - Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (d.1999).
• 23 February - Johnny Carey, soccer player and manager (d.1995).
• 18 March - G. E. M. Anscombe, analytic philosopher (d.2001).
• 3 April - Myles McKeon, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Bunbury, Australia.
• 3 April - Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, poet and writer (d.1982).
• 9 April - Gordon Lambert, art collector, member of the Seanad (d.2005).
• 1 May - Dan O'Herlihy, actor (d.2005).
• 5 May - Séamus Ennis, Uilleann piper, singer and folk-song collector (d.1982).
• 9 May - Joseph Bermingham, former Irish Labour Party TD.
• 9 May - Anne Yeats, painter and stage designer (d.2001).
• 8 June - Constantine Fitzgibbon, historian and novelist (d.1983).
• 10 June - Kevin O'Flanagan, physician, rugby and soccer player and Olympic official (d.2006).

July to December

• 7 July - Fred Kiernan, soccer player (d.1981).
• 15 July - Iris Murdoch, novelist and philosopher (d.1999).
• 21 July - Roderick Gill, cricketer (d.1983).
• 15 August - Benedict Kiely, writer, broadcaster and journalist (d.2007).
• 15 September - Michael ffrench-O'Carroll, Independent TD and Senator (d.2007).
• 25 October - Jimmy Rudd, soccer player (d.1985).
• 27 October - James Joseph Magennis, awarded Victoria Cross for taking part in Operation Struggle in 1945 (d.1986).
• 1 November - Gerard Slevin, former Chief Herald of Ireland.
• 5 November - Seamus Twomey, twice chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (d.1989).
• 11 December - Digby McLaren, geologist and palaeontologist in Canada (d.2004).

Full date unknown

• Sean 'ac Donncha, traditional singer (d.1996).
• Dave Creedon, Cork hurler (d.2007).
• Vivian Mercier, literary critic (d.1989).
• J. J. O'Reilly, Cavan Gaelic footballer (d.1952).
• Tony Reddin, Tipperary hurler.

Deaths

• 9 January - John Danaher, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 near Pretoria, South Africa (b.1860).
• 13 February - William Temple, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 at Rangiriri, New Zealand (b.1833).
• 21 February - John O'Connor Power, Irish Nationalist politician and MP (b.1846).
• 6 March - Pierce McCann, member of 1st Dáil representing Tipperary East.
• 20 March - William Hone, cricketer (b.1842).
• 30 April - John Pentland Mahaffy, classicist (b.1839).
• 8 June - Coslett Herbert Waddell, priest and botanist (b.1858).
• 25 June - William Martin Murphy, Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party) MP, newspaper proprietor, leader of employer's syndicate in the Dublin Lockout of 1913 (b.1844).
• 25 July - Samuel McCaughey, pastoralist, politician and philanthropist in Australia (b.1835).
• 5 September - Joseph Ivess, member of the New Zealand House of Representatives (b.1844).
• 31 December - Con Lehane, socialist active in the Irish Socialist Republican Party, the Social Democratic Federation, and the Socialist Party of Great Britain (b.1877).

Full date unknown

• Patrick Egan, treasurer of the Irish Land League, fled to the United States, United States Minister to Chile (b.1841).

References

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