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See also:	1910 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1910 List of years in Ireland

Events in the year1910 in Ireland.

• 8 January –Sinéad Flanagan married future Irish presidentÉamon de Valera inDublin.
• 21 February –Irish Unionist members of theWestminster Parliament electedSir Edward Carson as party leader, replacingWalter Long.
• 23 February –St Patrick's College, Maynooth, became a recognised college of theNational University of Ireland.
• May – TheIrish Countrywomen's Association was founded, as the Society of the United Irishwomen, by a group of educated and largely Protestant women inBree, County Wexford.^[1]
• June –Bridget Dowling eloped to London with Alois Hitler Jr., a kitchen porter at theShelbourne Hotel, Dublin, and half-brother toAdolf.
• July –Irish republican and socialist leaderJames Connolly returned to Ireland from the United States.
• August – The first passenger flight inUlster:Harry Ferguson piloted Miss Rita Marr.^[2]
• 29 August – The Aero Club of Ireland held its inaugural aviation meeting atLeopardstown Racecourse.
• 11 September – English-born actor-aviatorRobert Loraine made an aeroplane flight from Wales across theIrish Sea but landed some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast inDublin Bay.^[3][4]
• 20 October –RMS Olympic was launched at theHarland & Wolff shipyard inBelfast. At 45,324 gross tons, she was the largest ship afloat. Her sister shipRMS Titanic was launched 16 months later.
• November
  • Reconstruction began of the original city bridge over theRiver Suir inWaterford; it was opened in 1913 by John Redmond.^[5]
  • TheIrish Republican Brotherhood monthly newspaperIrish Freedom began publication in Dublin.
• 3 December –Sir Edward Carson andJames Campbell were re-elected unopposed as Unionist Members of Parliament forTrinity College Dublin.
• TheNon-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland was created by merger of the Presbytery of Antrim and Remonstrant Synod of Ulster.^[6]
• Lilian Bland built and flew her ownbiplaneglider, the first built in Ireland, fromCarnmoney Hill; an engine was fitted soon afterwards^[7] and she made her first powered flight in late August.

• 13 January – The playDeirdre of the Sorrows byJohn Millington Synge (died 1909) was performed for the first time at theAbbey Theatre, Dublin.
• 5 May –Padraic Colum's playThomas Muskerry premiered at the Abbey Theatre.
• 7 May –Annie Horniman withdrew financial support from the Abbey Theatre in protest at its refusal to close on the death of KingEdward VII the previous day.
• August – TheKalem Company ofNew York began shooting the first of several films partly on location in Ireland,A Lad from Old Ireland, with a filming location aroundBeaufort, County Kerry, with Canadian Irish directorSidney Olcott. This was the first production by an Americanfilm studio to be shot outside the United States.
• September –Lord Dunsany's short story collectionA Dreamer's Tales was published.
• 3 November – The oldestcéilí band in Ireland,The Kilfenora Céilí Band was founded inKilfenora, County Clare.^[8]
• TheCork Public Museum opened.
• Terence MacSwiney's first play,The Last Warriors of Coole, was produced.
• Ella Young's first book of stories,Celtic Wonder Tales, was published with illustrations byMaud Gonne.

• International

  • 12 February Ireland 1–1 England (inBelfast)^[9]
  • 19 March Ireland 1–0 Scotland (in Belfast)^[9]
  • 11 April Wales 4–1 Ireland (inWrexham)^[9]

  Irish League

  • Winners:Cliftonville F.C.

  Irish Cup

• Winners:Distillery F.C. 1–0Cliftonville F.C.

• 1 January –Charles Billingsley, cricketer (died 1951).^[10]
• 2 January –Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin, politician (died 1991).
• 6 January –James "Lugs" Branigan, police detective and boxer (died 1986).
• 16 January –William Bedell Stanford, classical scholar and senator (died 1984).
• 29 January –Colin Middleton, artist (died 1983).
• 10 April –Fintan Coogan Snr,Fine Gael partyTeachta Dála (TD) (died 1984).
• 13 April –Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist (died 1992).
• 9 May –Barbara Woodhouse, dog trainer (died 1988).
• 20 May –Johnny Callanan,Fianna Fáil party TD (died 1982).
• 5 June –Ham Lambert, cricketer and rugby player (died 2006).
• 12 June –Bill Naughton, playwright and author (died 1992).
• 24 June –Margaret Kelly, dancer (died 2004).
• 27 June –Nicholas Mansergh, historian (died 1991).
• 1 July –Dan Spring,Gaelic footballer, trade unionist andLabour Party TD (died 1988).
• 4 July –George Otto Simms,Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin andArchbishop of Armagh (died 1991).
• 1 August –Cathal Gannon,harpsichord maker andfortepiano restorer (died 1999).
• 8 August –Bobby Kirk, ice hockey player (died 1970).
• 14 August –Eddie Ingram, cricketer (died 1973).
• 24 September –Robert Alexander, rugby and cricket player (died 1943).
• 1 November –Michael Lyons, Fine Gael party TD and Senator (died 1991).
• 15 November –Geoffrey Toone, actor (died 2005).
• 19 November –Manliff Barrington, motorcycle racer (died 1999).
• 26 November –Cyril Cusack, actor (died 1993).
• 29 November –Máirtín Ó Direáin, poet (died 1988).
• 10 December –Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director ofThe Irish Press, Fianna Fáil party TD representingDublin North-West (died 1982).
• 22 December –James Boucher, cricketer (died 1995).
• 26 December –Stephen Coughlan, Labour Party TD andMayor of Limerick (died 1994).

  Full date unknown

  • Peter Kavanagh, association football player (died 1993).
  • Betty Miller, writer (died 1965).
  • Séamus Ó Néill, writer (died 1981).

• 17 February –St. Clair Augustine Mulholland, American Civil War officer (born 1839).
• 6 May – KingEdward VII (born 1841).
• 30 August –Hedges Eyre Chatterton,Conservative PartyMember of Parliament andVice-Chancellor of Ireland (born 1819).
• 30 August –George Throssell, secondPremier of Western Australia (born 1840).

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