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Events in the year1911 in Ireland.

• 5 January –Protestant church leaders condemned theNe TemerePapal decree on mixed marriages.
• 2 April – Thenational population census was taken.^[1]
• 16 May – TheCunard Line'sSS Ivernia struck a rock on enteringQueenstown harbour.
• 27 May – The first issue of theIrish Worker was published. The paper was the official organ of theIrish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) and was edited byJames Larkin.
• 31 May – TheRMSTitanic's hull was launched at theHarland & Wolff shipyard inBelfast. It was the largest ship afloat. Her sisterRMS Olympic sailed forLiverpool the same day to take uptransatlantic service.
• 22 June – AsGeorge V was crowned King inLondon aSinn Féin meeting at the Customs House inDublin condemned Irish participation in the coronation ceremonies.
• 8–12 July – KingGeorge V andQueen Mary made a five-day royal visit to Dublin which was the last to the city this century. On 8 July, they officially open the College of Science inMerrion Square and on 10 July they visitedSt Patrick's College, Maynooth.^[2]
• 9 August – A statue ofCharles Stewart Parnell was hoisted onto its pedestal inSackville Street, Dublin.
• 17 August –Dublin County Council voted in favour of usingGreenwich Mean Time. The councillors heard that Irish time, being 25 minutes behind Greenwich, was a great handicap for trade.
• 18 August – TheParliament Act removed theHouse of Lords' power regarding budgets and restricted their power over other bills to a two-yearsuspensive veto. This madeIrish Home Rule a possibility in the future.
• 21 August – The Irish Women's Suffrage Federation was founded.
• 26 August –Wexford foundry workers were locked out for attempting to join the ITGWU. The lockout continued until February 1912.
• 23 September – 70,000Unionists andOrangemen marched from Belfast to Craigavon House to protest against Home Rule.
• 1 October – The monument toParnell was officially unveiled in Upper Sackville Street, Dublin.

  Full date unknown

  • A strike of women workers atJacob's biscuit factory in Dublin was organised byRosie Hackett.
  • The organisationRoyal Arch Purple was formed, closely linked to theOrange Institution.^[3]
  • Bellevue Pleasure Gardens, a public park and recreational area, was opened on the slopes ofCavehill in Belfast.
  • Sir Samuel Kelly founded his familycoal merchant business as a limited company with a capital of £50,000, asJohn Kelly Limited.^[4][5]

• 16 April –St. John Greer Ervine's playMixed Marriage premiered at theAbbey Theatre in Dublin.
• 16 December – The ImperialCopyright Act (coming into effect in 1912) confirmed the library ofTrinity College Dublin as one of the six in the UK entitled to be given by legal deposit a copy of every British publication.
• TheKalem Company ofNew York shota film based on the playThe Colleen Bawn on location in Ireland with Canadian Irish directorSidney Olcott. (Another version was shot this year in Australia.)
• Patrick MacGill'sSongs of a Navvy was published.^[6]
• Adam Lynn'sUlster Scots dialectRandom Rhymes frae Cullybackey was published.
• W. F. Marshall's poemsUlster Sails West, including "Hi Uncle Sam!", was published.
• The first volume,Ave, of novelistGeorge Moore's three-volume autobiographicalHail and Farewell was published in the same year that he left Dublin to settle in London.
• Katharine Tynan Hinkson'sNew Poems was published.^[6]

• International

  • 28 January – Ireland 1–2 Wales (inBelfast)^[7]
  • 11 February – England 2–2 Ireland (inDerby)^[7]
  • 18 March – Scotland 2–0 Ireland (inGlasgow)^[7]

• Irish League

  • Winners:Linfield F.C.

• Irish Cup

  • Winners:Shelbourne F.C. 0 – 0, 2 – 1Bohemian F.C.

• Glenavon F.C. joined theIrish Football League, replacing Bohemian F.C. who had resigned from the League, but returned next year.

• All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1911 Winners: Cork
• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1911 Winners: Kilkenny
• Meath were declared Leinster football champions for 20 minutes, but when Kilkenny arrived late for the final, Meath agreed to play the match and were beaten.

• Cliftonville Golf Club was founded in Belfast.

• 11 February – Ireland beat England by one try to nil at the firstRugby Union international of the season atLansdowne Road.

• 31 January –Eddie Byrne, actor (died 1981).
• 3 February –Tom Davis, association football player (died 1987).
• 4 February –Jimmy Walsh, Kilkenny hurler (died 1977).
• 12 February –Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Attorney-General,Chief Justice of Ireland and fifthPresident of Ireland (died 1978).
• 28 February –Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon (died 1993).
• 5 March –Joseph Tomelty, actor, novelist, and playwright (died 1995).
• 5 May –James Horan,Roman Catholicmonsignor, conceived and createdIreland West Airport (died 1986).
• 17 May –Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (died 1998).
• 27 July –Donal Lamont, Catholic Bishop in Rhodesia (died 2003).
• 29 July –Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1940 nearDunkirk in France (died 1995).
• 8 August –Billy Behan, association football player andfootball scout (died 1991).
• 18 September –Brinsley Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, ufologist and politician (died 1995).
• 24 September –James Gill, cricketer (died 2000).
• 5 October –Brian O'Nolan, also known as Myles na gCopaleen, novelist, satirist, and humourist (died 1966).
• 11 October –Fred Daly, golfer (died 1990).
• 19 October –John de Courcy Ireland, maritime historian and political activist (died 2006).
• 26 December –John 'Tull' Dunne,Gaelic footballer, coach and administrator (died 1990).
• Full date unknown
  • Jimmy Kelly, association football player (died 1970).
  • Con Lehane, nationalist, member of theIRA Army Council, andDáil representative (died 1983).

• 3 February –Robert Tressell, writer and author ofThe Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (born 1870).
• 1 August –Dudley Stagpoole, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 in New Zealand (born 1838).
• 16 August –Patrick Francis Moran, thirdArchbishop of Sydney (born 1830).
• 5 September –Katherine Cecil Thurston, novelist (born 1875).
• 23 September –Daniel O'Reilly,U.S. Representative fromNew York (born 1838).

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