1913 in Ireland

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.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*International::18 January Ireland 0 - 1 Wales (in Belfast)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 161-162|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::15 February Ireland 2 - 1 England (in Belfast)::15 March Ireland 1 - 2 Scotland (in Dublin)

*Irish League::Winners: Glentoran

*Irish Cup::Winners: Linfield 2 - 0 Glentoran

*Derry Celtic were relegated and subsequently voted out of the Irish Football League. It never played senior football again.

Births

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).

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).

Full date unknown

*Sigerson Clifford, poet and playwright (d.1985).
*David Grene, classical scholar (d.2002).
*Tony O'Malley, painter (d.2003).

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).

Full date unknown

*Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, scholar and educator (b.1829).
*Emily Lawless, writer (b.1845).

References