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See also:	1904 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1904 List of years in Ireland

Events in the year1904 in Ireland.

• 26 April – KingEdward VII andQueen Alexandra arrived atKingstown. The royal couple attended thePunchestown Races for the day.
• 2 May – The King and Queen travelled toWaterford where they stayed atLismore Castle, home of theDuke of Devonshire. Thomas Horgan of Youghal made the first known film in Ireland of this event.^[1]
• 4 May – The final day of the royal visit to Ireland.^[2]
• 2 June – The nave ofSt Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, was consecrated.^[3]
• 27 June – Thesecond Fastnet Rock lighthouse was first lit.^[4]
• 28 June – The Danish ocean liner, theSS Norge, was wrecked onHelen's Reef offRockall with the loss of 635 lives.^[5]
• 24 July –St Patrick's Cathedral was consecrated inArmagh town.^[6][7][8]
• Construction started ofGovernment Buildings,Merrion Street,Dublin (finishes 1922).
• TheLimerick Boycott began.
• The first "steamboat ladies" – female students at thewomen's colleges of theUniversities of Oxford andCambridge – were awardedad eundem degrees byTrinity College Dublin, at a time when their own universities refused to confer degrees upon women.
• The first woman,Isabel Marion Weir Johnston, began attendingTrinity College Dublin.

• 22 January – BaritoneHarry Plunket Greene made his first gramophone recordings.
• 25 February –J. M. Synge's tragedyRiders to the Sea was first performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theatre Society.^[9]
• 16 May –James Joyce won a prize for singing at aFeis Ceoil held at the Antient Concert Rooms inGreat Brunswick Street, Dublin.^[10][11]
• 16 June – The original "Bloomsday", the dayJames Joyce first walked out with his future wifeNora Barnacle (whom he first met on 10 June), to the Dublin suburb ofRingsend. He set the action of his novelUlysses (1922) on today's date.^[12]
• 1 September – The Leinster School of Music opened at 34 Harcourt Street, Dublin, by Samuel Myerscough. The school (which later added "Drama" to its title) became one of the examining bodies in Ireland for music and drama, moving to Griffith College, Dublin.
• 1 November –George Bernard Shaw's comedy about Ireland,John Bull's Other Island, opened at theRoyal Court Theatre,London, afterW. B. Yeats rejected it for the Abbey Theatre.
• 27 December – The Irish National Theatre Society (Abbey Theatre) opened to the public in Dublin for the first time. The bill consisted of three one-act plays,On Baile's Strand andCathleen Ní Houlihan by Yeats andSpreading the News byLady Gregory.
• TheUlster Literary Theatre was established.
• Lady Gregory publishedGods and Fighting Men, a retelling ofIrish mythology in English.
• 'Æ' (George William Russell) publishedThe Divine Vision, and Other Poems.^[13]
• James Joyce's story "Eveline" was published.
• Arthur Griffith'sThe Resurrection of Hungary was published.
• Peadar Ua Laoghaire's storySéadna was first published in book form.^[14]
• Grace Rhys's storyThe Charming of Estercel was published.

• International

  • 12 March – Ireland 1–3 England (inBelfast)^[15]
  • 21 March – Wales 0–1 Ireland (in Bangor)^[15]
  • 26 March – Ireland 1–1 Scotland (in Dublin)^[15]

• Irish League

  • Winners:Linfield F.C.

• Irish Cup

  • Winners:Linfield F.C. 5–1Derry Celtic F.C.

• Shelbourne F.C. became the second Dublin team to join theIrish Football League, afterBohemian F.C. who joined the previous year.

• Winner:Tom Kiely (in St. Louis, Missouri)

• 17 July – The first public game ofcamogie was played between Dublin teamsCraobh an Chéitinnigh (Keatings branch of theGaelic League) andCúchulainns at afeis at the Meath agricultural showground inNavan.

• 16 January –Frederick Boland, diplomat, firstIrish ambassador to Britain and to theUnited Nations (died 1985).
• 26 January –Seán MacBride,Clann na Poblachta partyTeachta Dála (TD), Cabinet minister andNobel Peace Prize winner (died 1988).^[16]
• 19 February –Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, writer (drowned 1950).^[17]
• 29 February –James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn, soldier and politician (died 1979).^[18]
• 7 March –Jim Ganly, cricketer and rugby player (died 1976).^[19]
• 27 April –Cecil Day-Lewis, poet and writer,Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1967 to 1972 (died 1972).^[20][21]
• 7 May –David Sullivan, labour leader in USA (died 1976).^[22]
• 5 June –Derrick Kennedy, cricketer (died 1976).^[23]
• 5 July –Michael McLaverty, novelist (died 1992).
• 20 July –Molly Keane (born Mary Nesta Skrine), novelist and playwright (died 1996).^[24][25]
• 17 August –John "Pondoro" Taylor, hunter and writer (died 1969).
• 9 September –Jack Lawrence, cricketer (died 1984).
• 2 October –Dermot Boyle,Marshal of the Royal Air Force (died 1993).
• 21 October –Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist (died 1967).
• 13 December –William McCrea, astronomer and mathematician (died 1999).

• 22 January –George Salmon, mathematician and theologian (born 1819).^[26]
• 21 March –William Russell Grace, businessman and firstRoman Catholic mayor ofNew York (born 1832).^{[27][28][29][30]}
• 5 April –Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (born 1822).^[31][32]
• 7 April –Timothy J. Campbell,Democratic partyU.S. Representative fromNew York State (born 1840).^[33]
• 25 May –Richard Harte Keatinge, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 atChundairee, India (born 1825).
• 28 August –John Saul, prostitute (born 1857).^[34]
• 15 September –John Kelly,coal merchant ofJohn Kelly Limited (born1840).^[35]
• 20 October –Richard Phelan, fourth Roman Catholic bishop ofPittsburgh,Pennsylvania (born 1828).
• 16 November –James Cooney, lawyer and Democratic party politician inMissouri (born 1848).
• Full date unknown –Edwin Hayes, watercolourist (born 1819).

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