1913 in Ireland
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[edit] Events
- 30 January - At Westminster the House of Lords rejects the Home Rule Bill by 326 to 69.
- 7 July - The Home Rule Bill is once again carried in the House of Commons, despite attempts by Andrew Bonar Law to obstruct it.
- 26 August - There is social unrest in Dublin as members of James Larkin's Irish Transport and General Workers' Union begin strike action.
- 1 September - Protest by locked-out workers lead to serious riots in Dublin. Shops are looted and attempts are made to tear up tram lines.
- 3 September - A meeting of 400 employers with William Martin Murphy pledges not to employ any persons who continue to be members of the Irish Transport & General Workers' Union.
- 7 September - A large meeting in Sackville Street asserts the right of free speech, trade union representation and demands an enquiry into police conduct.
- 17 September - In Newry, Edward Carson says that a Provisional Government will be established in Ulster if Home Rule is introduced. Meanwhile in Dublin, labour unrest grows with a march of 5,000 through the city.
- 27 September - 12,000 Ulster Volunteers parade at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society's show grounds at Balmoral in protest at the Home Rule Bill.
- 27 September - In Dublin the food ship, The Hare, arrives bringing forty tons of food that was raised by British trade unionists.
- 6 October - An official report on the lockout suggests that workers should be reinstated without having to give a pledge not to join the ITGWU.
- 16 October - 4,000 men and women march through Dublin in support of James Larkin and the Transport Union.
- 27 October - James Larkin of the ITGWU is sentenced to seven months in prison for seditious language.
- 10 November - The Dublin Volunteer Corps enrolls over 2,000 men. They declare they will preserve the "civil and religious liberties" of Protestants outside Ulster in the event of Home Rule.
- 19 November - The Irish Citizen Army is launched at a meeting of the Dublin Civic League in Dublin. The army is founded by James Connolly to protect workers in the general lockout.
- 25 November - The Irish Volunteers are formed at a meeting attended by 4,000 men in Dublin's Rotunda Rink.
- 28 November - Andrew Bonar Law addresses a huge unionist rally in the Theatre Royal in Dublin, declaring that if Home Rule is introduced Ulster will resist and will have the support of his party.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
- International
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- 18 January Ireland 0 - 1 Wales (in Belfast)[1]
- 15 February Ireland 2 - 1 England (in Belfast)[1]
- 15 March Ireland 1 - 2 Scotland (in Dublin)[1]
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- Winners: Glentoran
- Derry Celtic were relegated and subsequently voted out of the Irish Football League. It never played senior football again.
[edit] Births
[edit] January to June
- 19 January - Matt O'Mahoney, international soccer player (d.1992).
- 22 January - William Cardinal Conway, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh (d.1977).
- 30 January - Kevin Danaher, folklorist and writer (d.2002).
- 13 March - Joe Kelly, motor racing driver (d.1993).
- 29 March - Niall MacGinnis, actor (d. c1977).
- 14 April - Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore, soldier and Deputy Lieutenant for County Fermanagh (d.1960).
- 1 May - Maurice Gibson, Northern Irish judge (d.1987).
- 19 May - Seán Moore, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1986).
- 5 June - Peter Doherty, footballer (d.1990).
- 6 June - Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy, journalist and author (d.1980).
[edit] July to December
- 17 August - Harry Baird, soccer player (d.1973).
- 31 August - Jack Doyle, boxer, actor and singer (d.1978).
- 20 September - Bernard Bergin, cricketer (d.1985).
- 23 September - Samuel Edgar, cricketer (d.1937).
- 18 October - David Lord, Royal Air Force pilot, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at Arnhem (d.1944).
- 3 December - Gerry Healy, British Trotskyist leader (d.1989).
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- Sigerson Clifford, poet and playwright (d.1985).
- David Grene, classical scholar (d.2002).
- Tony O'Malley, painter (d.2003).
[edit] Deaths
- 3 January - James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, politician and diplomat (b.1838).
- 21 February - John Joseph Hogan, first Bishop of the Dioceses of Saint Joseph, Missouri and Kansas City, Missouri (b.1829).
- 15 March - Max Arthur Macauliffe, British administrator, scholar and author (b.1841).
- 25 March - Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, soldier (b.1833).
- 4 April - Edward Dowden, critic and poet (b.1843).
- 6 April - Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore, soldier, politician and Lord Lieutenant for County Tyrone (b.1835).
- 17 April - Barton McGuckin, tenor singer (b.1852).
- 25 April - Arthur Thomas Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at the Battle of Khushab, Persia (b.1830).
- 22 May - Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, lawyer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b.1837).
- 1 June - James O'Halloran, lawyer and politician in Quebec.
- 1 October - Eugene O'Keefe, businessman and philanthropist in Canada (b.1827).
- 5 October - Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest, author and political activist (b.1852).
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- Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, scholar and educator (b.1829).
- Emily Lawless, writer (b.1845).
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. pp. 161–162. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.
