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Events

• 6 September - The foundation stone of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast is laid by the Countess of Shaftesbury.
• The Second Boer War begins in South Africa. Major John McBride forms an Irish brigade to aid the Boers.
• Michael Davitt withdraws from the British House of Commons in protest at the Boer War.
• The first issue of Arthur Griffith's, "United Irishman", is published.

Arts and literature

• William Butler Yeats and Edward Martin form the Irish Literary Theatre. Its first performance is The Countess Cathleen.
• W. B. Yeats publishes The Wind Amongst the Reads.
• The Rathmines and Rathgar music society is founded.

Sport

Athletics

• Tom Kiely establishes a world record in the hammer event. He becomes the first man to throw the hammer more than 160 feet.

Football

• International

18 February England 13 - 2 Ireland (in Sunderland)^[1]

4 March Ireland 1 - 0 Wales (in Belfast)^[1]

25 March Scotland 9 - 1 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[1]

• Irish League

Winners: Distillery

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Glentoran

Golf

• British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: May Hezlet).

Births

• 18 January - Sir Anthony Esmonde, 15th Baronet, Fine Gael TD and MEP (d.1981).
• 21 January - John Bodkin Adams, general practitioner in Eastbourne cleared of murdering one of his patients (d.1983).
• 7 June - Elizabeth Bowen, novelist and short story writer (d.1973).
• 20 June - Robert Donovan, cricketer (d.1932).
• 4 July - Alexander Armstrong, naval surgeon, explorer and author (b.1818).
• 15 July - Seán Lemass, Fianna Fáil TD and founder member, Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach (d.1971).
• 22 September - Mick Gill, Galway and Dublin hurler (d.1980).
• 25 October - Micheál MacLiammóir, actor and dramatist (d.1978).
• 26 November - Jacko Heaslip, cricketer (d.1966).

Full date unknown

• Patrick Giles, Fine Gael TD (d.1965).
• Garrett Howard, Dublin and Limerick hurler.
• Lory Meagher, Kilkenny hurler (d.1973).
• David Neligan, policeman, "The Spy in the Castle" for Michael Collins (d.1983).
• Jimmy O'Dea, comedian (d.1965).
• Eugene O'Mahoney, museum curator and entomologist (d.1951).
• Arland Ussher, academic, essayist and translator (d.1980).
• Liam Ó Buachalla, Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann 1951–1954 and 1957–1969 (d.1970).

Deaths

• 19 March - Patrick Walsh, journalist, politician and mayor of Augusta, Georgia (b.1840).
• 16 May - Frederick McCoy, palaeontologist and museum administrator in Australia (b.1817).
• 5 June - Margaret Anna Cusack, nun, writer and founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace (b.1832).
• 18 October - Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (b.1863).
• 17 December - Walter Shanly, civil engineer, author, businessman and politician in Canada (b.1817).

Full date unknown

• Thomas Newenham Deane, architect (b.1828).

References