1906 in Ireland

Events

*January 4 - Irish Parliamentary Party Member of Parliament, William O'Brien, calls on nationalists to extract the maximum concessions for Ireland from every English government .
*February 17 - The 25th annual soccer match between Ireland and England takes place in Belfast. Ireland has yet to beat the 'old enemy' in the competition. Val Harris becomes the first Dubliner to play for Ireland.
*May 16 - Temperance reformers meet with the Lord-Lieutenant. They want Sunday closing for all public houses, earlier closing on Saturdays and a reduction of licences throughout the country.
*May 30 - Land reform campaigner Michael Davitt dies aged 60.
*August 1 - The Catholic Hierarchy rules out any scheme for mixed education at Trinity College Dublin.
*August 7 - Douglas Hyde is awarded the freedom of Dublin.
*August 8 - A Parisian court cannot grant a divorce to Maud Gonne and John MacBride. A separation is granted and she is given custody of their son, Seán MacBride.
*Belfast and Northern Counties Railway taken over by Midland Railway (of England). [cite book |last= Ferris |first= T |title= The Irish Narrow Gauge (Volume 2, The Ulster Lines)|publisher= Midland Publishing|year= 1993 |isbn= 1-85780-017-6 ]
*Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast is completed, laying claim to being the first air conditioned building in the world.
*Work on the building of Belfast City Hall is completed.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*International::17 February Ireland 0 - 5 England (in Belfast)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 159|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::17 March Ireland 0 - 1 Scotland (in Dublin)::2 April Wales 4 - 4 Ireland (in Wrexham)

*Irish League::Winners: Cliftonville and Distillery. The title was shared after two playoff matches ended in draws.

*Irish Cup::Winners: Shelbourne 2 - 0 Belfast Celtic. Shelbourne become the first Dublin club to win the Irish Cup.

Births

*13 April - Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature 1969, playwright, novelist and poet (d.1989).
*24 May - John Joseph Scanlan, second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu (d.1997).
*19 July - Hugh Baker, cricketer (d.1989).
*11 August - James Graham, cricketer (d.1942).
*28 September - William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel, peer and Labour politician (d.1997).
*28 September - Lawrence Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse (d. c1979).
*22 October - Charles Lynch, pianist (d.1984).
*10 December - Padraig Marrinan, artist (d.1975).

Full date unknown

*Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Irish language writer (d.1970).

Deaths

*2 March - Ellen Mary Clerke, author, journalist, poet and science writer (b.1840).
*30 May - Michael Davitt, republican, nationalist agarian agitator, social campaigner, labour leader and Irish National Land League founder (b.1846).
*21 October - Edward James Saunderson, leader of the Irish Unionist Party in the British House of Commons (b.1837).
*27 November - Michael Cusack, founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association (b.1847).

Full date unknown

*John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there (b.1816).

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