1910 in Ireland
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See also: 1909 in Ireland, other events of 1910, 1911 in Ireland and the list of years in Ireland.
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[edit] Events
- January 8 - Sinéad Flanagan marries Éamon de Valera in Dublin
- January 13 - 'Deirdre of the Sorrows' by John Millington Synge is performed for the first time at the Abbey Theatre.
- February 21 - Irish Unionist MPs at Westminster elect Sir Edward Carson as party leader, replacing Walter Long.
- February 23 - St Patrick's College, Maynooth becomes a recognised college of the National University of Ireland.
- May 7 - Anne Horniman withdraws her financial support from the Abbey Theatre. It is a protest due to the fact that the Theatre refused to close on the death of King Edward VII who died the previous day.
- August 29 - The Aero Club of Ireland hold its inaugural aviation meeting at Leopardstown Racecourse.
- December 3 - Edward Carson and James Cambell are re-elected unopposed as Unionist representatives for Trinity College Dublin.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
- Winners: Cliftonville
- Winners: Distillery 1 - 0 Cliftonville
[edit] Births
- 1 January - Charles Billingsley, cricketer (d.1951).
- 29 January - Colin Middleton, artist (d.1983).
- 5 June - Ham Lambert, cricketer and rugby player (d.2006).
- 12 June - Bill Naughton, playwright and author (d.1992).
- 1 July - Dan Spring, Gaelic footballer, trade unionist and Irish Labour Party TD (d.1988).
- 4 July - George Otto Simms, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Archbishop of Armagh (d.1991).
- 1 August - Cathal Gannon, harpsichord maker and fortepiano restorer (d.1999).
- 8 August - Bobby Kirk, ice hockey player (d.1970).
- 14 August - Eddie Ingram, cricketer (d.1973).
- 24 September - Robert Alexander, cricketer (d.1943).
- 15 November - Geoffrey Toone, actor (d.2005).
- 26 November - Cyril Cusack, actor (d.1993).
- 10 December - Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director of The Irish Press, Fianna Fáil TD representing Dublin North West (d.1982).
- 22 December - James Boucher, cricketer (d.1995).
- 26 December - Stephen Coughlan, Irish Labour Party TD and Mayor of Limerick (d.1994).
- Manliff Barrington, motorcycle racer (d.1999).
- Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist (d.1992).
- Peter Kavanagh, soccer player (d.1993).
- Paddy Moore, soccer player (d.1951).
- Máirtín Ó Direáin, poet (d.1988).
- Séamus Ó Néill, writer (d.1986).
