1897 in Ireland
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See also: 1896 in Ireland, other events of 1897, 1898 in Ireland and the list of years in Ireland.
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[edit] Events
- The Irish Motor Car and Cycle Company is established.
[edit] Arts and literature
- Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, is published for the first time.
- Amanda McKittrick Ros publishes Irene Iddesleigh.
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
- Winners: Glentoran
- Winners: Cliftonville 3 - 1 Sherwood Foresters
[edit] Births
- 23 March - John Lighton Synge, mathematician and physicist (d.1995).
- 4 April - Francis Evans, British diplomat (d.1983).
- 26 May - Ernie O'Malley, prominent officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and on anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and a writer (d.1957).
- 1 July - Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence (d.1980).
- 1 September - Andy Kennedy, footballer (d.1963).
- 26 November - Tomás Ó Deirg, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1956).
- 3 December - Kate O'Brien, novelist (d.1974).
- Bob Fullam, soccer player (d.1974).
- Mainie Jellett, painter (d.1944).
- Enid Starkie, literary critic and biographer (d.1970).
[edit] Deaths
- 19 March - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, geographer (b.1810).
- 1 April - William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin (b.1828).
- 11 October - Charles W. Jones, lawyer and United States Senator in Florida (b.1834).
