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Events

• 5 January - Protestant church leaders condemn the Ne Temere Papal decree on mixed marriages.
• 31 May - The RMS Titanic's hull is launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. It was the largest steamship afloat.
• 22 June - As King George V is crowned in London a Sinn Féin meeting at the Customs House in Dublin condemns Irish participation in the coronation ceremonies.
• 8 July - King George V and Queen Mary officially open the College of Science in Merrion Square, Dublin.
• 9 August - A statue of Charles Stewart Parnell is hoisted onto its pedestal in Sackville Street.
• 17 August - Dublin County Council votes in favour of using Greenwich Mean Time. The councillors hear that Irish time, being 25 minutes behind Greenwich, is a great handicap for trade.
• 18 August - The Parliament Act 1911 removes the House of Lords's power regarding budgets and restricts their power over other bills to a two-year suspensive veto. This Act made Home Rule a possibility in the future.
• 23 September - 70,000 unionists and Orangemen march from Belfast to Craigavon House to protest against Home Rule.
• 1 October - The monument to Charles Stewart Parnell is officially unveiled in Upper Sackville Street.

Full date unknown

• Bellevue Pleasure Gardens, a public park and recreational area, is opened on the slopes of Cavehill, Belfast.
• Royal Arch Purple is formed; organisation separate but closely linked to the Orange Institution.^[1]

Sport

Football

• International

28 January Ireland 1 - 2 Wales (in Belfast)^[2]

11 February England 2 - 2 Ireland (in Derby)^[2]

18 March Scotland 2 - 0 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[2]

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Shelbourne 0 - 0, 2 - 1 Bohemians

• Glenavon joins the Irish Football League, replacing Bohemians who had resigned from the League, but returned the next year.

Gaelic Games

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions: Kilkenny
• All-Ireland Senior Football Champions: Cork
• Meath were declared Leinster football champions for 20 minutes, but when Kilkenny arrived late for the final, Meath agreed to play the match and were beaten.

Rugby

• 11 February - Ireland beats England by one try to nil at the first rugby international of the season at Lansdowne Road.

Births

• 31 January - Eddie Byrne, actor (d.1981).
• 3 February - Tom Davis, soccer player.
• 12 February - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Attorney-General, Chief Justice of Ireland and fifth President of Ireland (d.1978).
• 28 February - Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon (d.1993).
• 5 March - Joseph Tomelty, actor, novelist and playwright (d.1995.
• 5 May - James Horan, Roman Catholic monsignor, conceived and created Knock Airport (d.1986).
• 17 May - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (d.1998).
• 29 July - Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1940 near Dunkirk, France (d.1995).
• 8 August - Billy Behan, soccer player and scout (d.1991).
• 24 September - James Gill, cricketer (d.2000).
• 5 October - Brian O'Nolan, also known as Myles na gCopaleen, novelist, satirist and humourist (d.1966).
• 11 October - Fred Daly, golfer (d.1990).
• 19 October - John de Courcy Ireland, maritime historian and political activist (d.2006).

Full date unknown

• Donal Lamont, former Catholic Bishop in Rhodesia (d.2003).
• Con Lehane, nationalist, member of the IRA Army Council, and Dáil representative (d.1983).
• William Bedell Stanford, classical scholar and senator (d.1984).
• Jimmy Walsh, Kilkenny hurler (d.1977).
• Martin White, former Kilkenny hurler.

Deaths

• 3 February - Robert Tressell, writer and author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (b.1870).
• 1 August - Dudley Stagpoole, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 near Poutoko in Taranaki, New Zealand (b.1838).
• 16 August - Patrick Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney (b.1830).
• 5 September - Katherine Cecil Thurston, novelist (b.1875).
• 23 September - Daniel O'Reilly, U.S. Representative from New York (b.1838).

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