1919 in Ireland
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See also: 1918 in Ireland, other events of 1919, 1920 in Ireland and the list of years in Ireland.
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[edit] Events
- January 21 - 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.
- February 3 - 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.
- April 1 - 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.
- April 18 - 1,000 delegates from all over Ireland attend the Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis in Dublin. Éamon de Valera is elected President of the organisation.
- April 19 - Sinn Féin proposes an Executive Council of the Irish National Alliance to challenge the right of any foreign parliament to make laws for Ireland.
- May 13 - Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers, Dan Breen and Seán Treacy are injured while rescuing Seán Hogan from custody in County Limerick.
- June 14 - Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown arrive in Clifden, County Galway following their 1,900 mile transatlantic flight.
- September 12 - Dáil Éireann is declared illegal. There are raids on Sinn Féin centres and Ernest Blythe is arrested.
- November 9 - Labour leader James Larkin is arrested in New York. He is charged with circulating a publication advocating the forcible overthrow of the government.
[edit] Arts and literature
- May 5 Seamus Ennis born. Irish player of uilleann pipes, singer, and folk-song collector.
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
- Winners: Belfast Celtic
[edit] Births
- 30 January - Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (d.1999).
- 23 February - Johnny Carey, soccer player and manager (d.1995).
- 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 - 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).
- 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).
- 5 November - Seamus Twomey, twice chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (d.1989).
- Sean 'ac Donncha, traditional singer (d.1996).
- Dave Creedon, Cork hurler (d.2007).
- Vivian Mercier, literary critic (d.1989).
[edit] Deaths
- 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).
- 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).
