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Events in the year1906 in Ireland.

• 4 January –Irish Parliamentary Party member of parliamentWilliam O'Brien called on nationalists to extract the maximum concessions for Ireland from every British government.
• 16 May – Temperance reformers met with the Lord-Lieutenant to seek Sunday closing for allpublic houses, earlier closing on Saturdays, and a reduction of public house licences throughout the country.
• 6 June – TheIveagh Baths opened inDublin.^[1]
• 1 August – The Catholic Hierarchy ruled out any scheme for mixed religious education atTrinity College Dublin.
• 7 August –Douglas Hyde was awarded the freedom of Dublin.
• 8 August – A Parisian court granted a separation toMaud Gonne andJohn MacBride; Gonne was given custody of their son,Seán MacBride.

• September –St Eunan's College opened inLetterkenny.
• TheRoyal Victoria Hospital, Belfast was completed, laying claim to being the firstair conditioned building in the world.
• Work on the building ofBelfast City Hall was completed.
• Alice Perry became the first woman to graduate with a degree incivil engineering in Ireland or Britain,^[2] atQueen's College, Galway, and was appointed in December as actingcounty surveyor forGalway.^[3]

• 'Æ' (George William Russell) published his poetry collectionBy Still Waters.^[4]
• Douglas Hyde edited and translatedThe Religious Songs of Connacht fromIrish into English.^[5]
• Winifred Mary Letts' one-act playThe Eyes of the Blind premiered at theAbbey Theatre, Dublin.
• W. B. Yeats published hisPoems, 1899–1905.
• Ella Young published her first book of verse,Poems.

• International

  17 February – Ireland 0–5 England (inBelfast) (25th annual match with no Irish wins)^[6]Val Harris became the first Dubliner to play for Ireland.

  17 March – Ireland 0–1 Scotland (in Dublin)^[6]

  2 April – Wales 4–4 Ireland (inWrexham)^[6]

• Irish League

  Winners:Cliftonville F.C. andDistillery F.C. The title was shared after two playoff matches ended in draws.

• Irish Cup

  Winners:Shelbourne F.C. 2–0Belfast Celtic. Shelbourne became the first Dublin club to win the Irish Cup.

• 22 April–2 May: in theIntercalated Games inAthens,Peter O'Connor beatCon Leahy to win Gold in thehop, step and jump, and also took Silver in thelong jump. At the ceremony to mark the latter event, O'Connor scaled a flagpole and hoisted anErin Go Bragh flag in protest at being put on the British team.

• 4 February –Letitia Dunbar-Harrison, librarian (died 1994 in Northern Ireland).
• 13 February –Máirtín Ó Cadhain,Irish language writer (died 1970).
• 13 April –Samuel Beckett,Nobel Prize in Literature, playwright, novelist, and poet (died 1989).
• 24 May –John Joseph Scanlan, second Bishop of theRoman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu (died 1997).
• 1 July –Ivan Neill, major andUnionist politician (died 2001 in Northern Ireland).
• 19 July –Hugh T. Baker, cricketer (died 1989).
• 11 August –James Graham, cricketer (died 1942).
• 28 September –William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel, peer andLabour party politician (died 1997).
• 28 September –Lawrence Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse (d. c.1979).
• 22 October –Charles Lynch, pianist (died 1984).
• 10 December –Padraig Marrinan, artist (died 1975 in Northern Ireland).

• 2 March –Ellen Mary Clerke, author, journalist, poet, and science writer (born 1840).
• 30 May –Michael Davitt,republican,nationalist agrarian agitator, social campaigner, labour leader, andIrish National Land League founder (born 1846).
• 7 July –John Drummond, early settler and explorer inWestern Australia, first Inspector ofNative Police there (born 1816).
• 21 October –Edward James Saunderson, leader of theIrish Unionist Party in theBritish House of Commons (born 1837).
• 10 November –John Richardson Wigham, lighting engineer (born 1829 in Scotland).
• 27 November –Michael Cusack, founder of theGaelic Athletic Association (born 1847).

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