1903 in Ireland

Events

*3 January - The Norwegian ship, Remittent, is towed into quarantine in Queenstown (Cóbh). The entire crew are suffering from beriberi.
*3 February - The proposed canonisation of Oliver Plunkett is discussed in Rome.
*27 February - A meeting at the Mansion House enthusiastically welcomes a movement to establish St. Patrick's Day as a national holiday.
*8 March - Charles Gavan Duffy is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. He is laid to rest near others who took part in the 1848 Rising.
*26 March - Chief Secretary George Wyndham introduces the Irish Land Bill in the British House of Commons.
*31 March - The Lord-Lieutenant announces that King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra intend to visit Ireland within the coming year.
*15 May - The Chief Secretary for Ireland, George Wyndham, asks for support for his Irish Land Bill.
*23 May - Extracts from the annual report of the British Army shows that there are 35,717 Irishmen in its service.
*9 June - University of Dublin announces that it is to award degrees to women following a vote.
*14 August - The Wyndham Land Act is passed in the British House of Commons. It offers special incentives to landlords to sell their entire estates.
*5 September - Irish painter Henry Jones Thaddeus is granted permission to paint the first portrait of Pope Pius X.
*13 November - The 2nd battalion of the Dublin Fusiliers is welcomed home after nearly 20 years of foreign service.
*22 December - The well-known Irish optician, Patrick Cahill, who had the sole privilege of supplying the late Pope Leo XIII with spectacles, is to supply the present pontiff, Pope Pius X.

Full date unknown

*Pigeon House generating station in Dublin starts producing electricity

Arts and literature

port

Football

*International::14 February - England 4 - 0 Ireland (in Wolverhampton)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 157-158|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::21 March Scotland 0 - 2 Ireland (in Glasgow)::28 March Ireland 2 - 0 Wales (in Belfast)
*Irish League::Winners: Distillery

*Irish Cup::Winners: Distillery 3 - 1 Bohemians

*Bohemians becomes the first Dublin team to join the Irish Football League.
*The Oval football stadium, home of Glentoran, is rebuilt with the pitch being turned around ninety degrees.

Births

January to June

*15 January - Joe Stynes, Irish Republican and sportsman (d.1991).
*19 January - Alfred Lane Beit, British politician, art collector and philanthropist, honorary Irish citizen (d.1994).
*28 January - Kathleen Lonsdale, X-ray crystallographer (d.1971).
*2 February - Hilton Edwards, actor, director, co-founder of Gate Theatre (d.1982).
*5 February - William Teeling, author, traveller and UK politician (d.1975).
*23 February - Alec Mackie, soccer player (d.1984).
*11 March - Michael Hilliard, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (d.1982).
*13 March - Joseph Blowick second leader of Clann na Talmhan, TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1970).
*5 April - Leo Rowsome, teacher, player and maker of uilleann pipes (d.1970).
*12 April - Paddy Collins, Cork hurler.
*25 May - Ewart Milne, poet (d.1987).
*8 June - Harry Duggan, soccer player (d.1968).

July to December

*18 July - Charles Hill, cricketer (d.1982).
*5 August - Achey Kelly, cricketer (d.1961).
*17 September - Frank O'Connor, short story writer and memoirist (d.1966).
*6 October - Ernest Walton, physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics (d.1995).
*1 November - Max Adrian, actor (d.1973).
*18 December - Harry Forsyth, cricketer.

Full date unknown

*Leo Maguire, singer, songwriter and radio broadcaster (d.1985).
*Stanley Woods, motor cycle racer, with 29 Grand Prix wins and 10 Isle of Man TT wins (d.1993).

Deaths

*9 February - Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (b.1816).
*5 April - Mary Anne Sadlier, novelist (b.1820).
*27 April - William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand (b.1819).
*25 July - John Michael Clancy, Democrat United States Representative from New York (b.1837).
*12 September - Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (b.1822).
*22 October - William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (b.1838).
*24 October - James William Adams, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Killa Kazi, Afghanistan (b.1839).

Full date unknown

*Charles O'Hea, Catholic Priest, baptised Ned Kelly and ministered to him before he was hanged in 1880 (b.1814).
*Walter Osborne, painter (b.1859).

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