1902 in Ireland

1902 in Ireland

Events

*January 7 - Waterford Corporation passes a motion to confer the freedom of the city on John Redmond.
*January 8 - The Great National Convention takes place in the Round Room of the Rotunda in Dublin. Motions are passed regarding coercion, the Irish language and evicted tenants.
*April 2 - John Redmond is awarded the freedom of Dublin.
*June 2 - The centenary of the Christian Brothers is celebrated with High Mass in the Pro-Cathedral on Dublin.
*July 22 - Archbishop Thomas Croke dies at the age of 78. He was the first patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association and was a supporter of the Gaelic League and the Land League.
*Dunraven land conference starts.cite book | last=Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds)| year=1967 |title=The Course of Irish History | publisher=The Mercier Press | location=Cork, Ireland | pages=p 380]

Arts and literature

*Irish Literary Theatre becomes Irish National Theatre Society.

port

Football

*International::22 February Wales 0 - 3 Ireland (in Cardiff)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 157|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::1 March Ireland 1 - 5 Scotland (in Belfast)::22 March Ireland 0 - 1 England (in Belfast)

*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Linfield 5 - 0 Distillery

Births

January to June

*2 January - Dan Keating, Ireland's oldest man and last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence (d.2007).
*13 January - Francis Connell, cricketer (d.1983).
*20 January - Kevin Barry, executed for his part in an Irish Republican Army operation resulting in the deaths of three British soldiers (d.1920).
*25 April Cormac Breslin, Fianna Fáil TD and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (d.1978|).

July to December

*20 July - Jimmy Kennedy, songwriter (d.1984).
*21 July - William Bernard Barry, politician in the United States (d.1946).
*16 August - Arthur Douglas, cricketer and rugby player (d.1937).
*4 September - Patrick Lenihan, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1970).
*16 September - James Dillon, former leader of Fine Gael, TD and Minister (d.1986).
*16 December - Billy King, cricketer (d.1987).
*29 December - Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford, politician, dramatist and poet (d.1961).
*December - Maurice Gerard Moynihan, civil servant and writer (d.1999).

Full date unknown

*Thekla Beere, civil servant (d.1991).
*Maurice Gorham, journalist and broadcasting executive (d.1975).
*Jim Hurley, veteran of the Irish War of Independence, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler (d.1965).
*Patrick MacDonogh, poet (d.1961).
*Frank Ryan, member of the Irish Republican Army, editor of "An Phoblacht", leftist activist and leader of Irish volunteers on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War (d.1944).
*Francis Stuart, writer (d.2000).

Deaths

*20 January - Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic (b.1814).
*10 March - C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia (b.1843).
*21 April - Ethna Carbery, writer and poet (b.1866).
*20 July - John William Mackay, businessman in America (b.1831).
*22 July - Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association (b.1824).
*23 December - Lucius Gwynn, cricketer (b.1873).

Full date unknown

*John O'Hart, genealogist (b.1824).

References


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