1915 in Ireland

Events

*April 4 - 25,000 National Volunteers assemble at the Phoenix Park. John Redmond takes the salute from under the statue of Charles Stewart Parnell on Sackville Street.
*April 5 - At the National Volunteers convention at the Mansion House John Redmond praises their response to World War I.
*May 7 - The RMS Lusitania is torpedoed by German submarines about eight miles off the coast of Kinsale, County Cork while en route from New York to Liverpool. 1,195 lives lost.
*May 25 - The British Prime Minister appoints a national wartime coalition of 12 Liberals, 8 Unionists and 1 Labour member. In Dublin the Irish Parliamentary Party approves John Redmond's decision not to join.
*July 29 - Republicans, led by Patrick Pearse, take over the Gaelic League at its Dundalk conference. Douglas Hyde resigns as its President.
*August 1 - Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, and Pearse delivers the graveside oration.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Belfast Celtic

*Irish Cup::Winners: Linfield 1 - 0 Belfast Celtic

Births

*11 January - Paddy Mayne, international rugby union footballer and decorated soldier (d.1955).
*13 January - Kit Ahern, former Fianna Fáil TD (d.2007).
*21 January - Andy O'Brien, Fine Gael senator from County Cavan (d.2006).
*25 January - Liam Cunningham, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1976).
*7 February - Mark Clinton, Fine Gael TD, former Minister for Agriculture and MEP (d.2001).
*15 February - Sam Kydd, actor (d.1982).
*15 March - Micho Russell, tin whistle player and collector of traditional music and folklore (d.1994).
*9 April - Leonard Wibberley, author (d.1983).
*3 May - Walter Macken, novelist, dramatist and actor (d.1967).
*17 May - Oisín Kelly, sculptor (d.1981).
*18 September - James Tully, former Labour Party TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1992).
*7 November - Bill Hayes, soccer player (d.1987).
*20 December - Noel Browne, politician and former Cabinet Minister (d.1997).

Full date unknown

*John Graham, Irish Republican Army activist in the 1940s (d.1997).
*George Harrison, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and alleged gun-runner (d.2004).
*Jim Young, Cork hurler (d.1992).
*Willie Murphy, Cork hurler.

Deaths

January to June

*20 January - Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, businessman, politician, and philanthropist (b.1840).
*26 January - Michael Sullivan, physician, professor and politician in Canada (b.1838).
*28 January - David Dickson Rogers, politician in Ontario (b.1845).
*14 February - Cornelius Coughlan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (b.1828).
*24 April - Frederick William Hall, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium (b.1885).
*7 May - Hugh Lane, established Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, died on board the RMS Lusitania (b.1875).
*29 June - Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian leader (b.1831).

July to December

*2 August - William Abraham, Irish Nationalist MP (b.1840).
*21 August - Gerald Robert O'Sullivan, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 at Gallipoli, Turkey (b.1888).
*21 August - Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, peer and soldier (b.1864).
*25 September - Joseph Lynch, cricketer (b.1880).
*10 October - Albert Cashier, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, physically female, but lived as a man (b.1843).
*21 December - Violet Florence Martin, author (b.1862).

Full date unknown

*Standish Hayes O'Grady, antiquarian (b.1832).