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Events from the year1913 in Ireland.

• 13 January –Edward Carson founded theUlster Volunteer Force by unifying several existingloyalistmilitias.^[1]
• 30 January – At Westminster theHouse of Lords rejected the3rd Home Rule Bill by 326 to 69.
• 10 February –John Redmond opened the replacement city bridge over theRiver Suir inWaterford that will be named after him.^[2]
• 7 July – The Home Rule Bill was once again carried in theHouse of Commons, despite attempts byBonar Law to obstruct it.
• 26 August –Dublin Lock-out: members ofJames Larkin'sIrish Transport and General Workers' Union employed by theDublin United Tramways Company began strike action in defiance of the dismissal of trade union members by the chairman, businessmanWilliam Martin Murphy.^[3]
• 31 August – Dublin Lock-out: theDublin Metropolitan Police killed one demonstrator and injured 400 in dispersing a demonstration inSackville Street (Dublin).^[1]
• 1 September – Protest by locked-out workers led to serious riots in Dublin. Shops were looted and attempts made to tear up tram lines.

• 2 September – Twotenement houses in Church Street, Dublin, collapsed, killing 7 (including 2 children) and leaving 11 families homeless.^[4]
• 3 September – A meeting of 400 employers withWilliam Martin Murphy pledged not to employ any persons who continued to be members of the Irish Transport & General Workers' Union.
• 7 September – A large meeting in Sackville Street asserted the right of free speech, trade union representation, and demanded an enquiry into police conduct.
• 17 September
  • InNewry,Edward Carson said that a Provisional Government would be established inUlster if Home Rule was introduced.
  • In Dublin, labour unrest grew with a march of 5,000 people through the city.
• 27 September – Twelve thousand Ulster Volunteers paraded at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society's show grounds at Balmoral inBelfast to protest against the Home Rule Bill.
• 27 September – InDublin, the food ship,The Hare, arrived bringing forty tons of food raised by Britishtrade unionists.
• 6 October – An official report on the lockout suggested that workers should be reinstated without having to give a pledge not to join the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union.
• 16 October – Four thousand men and women marched through Dublin in support ofJames Larkin and the Transport Union.
• 27 October –James Larkin of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union was sentenced to seven months in prison for seditious language but was released after just over a week.
• 1 November
  • Kingstown trade unionist James Byrne, arrested for his part in the lockout, died as the result of ahunger strike.
  • ProfessorEoin MacNeill's article,The North Began, suggesting formation of pro-self-governmentIrish Volunteers, appeared in theGaelic League newspaperAn Claidheamh Soluis, at the suggestion ofThe O'Rahilly.^[5]
• 10 November – The Dublin Volunteer Corps enrolled over 2,000 men. They declared that they would preserve the "civil and religious liberties" ofProtestants outsideUlster in the event ofIrish Home Rule.
• 19 November – TheIrish Citizen Army was founded byJames Larkin,Jack White, andJames Connolly to protect workers in the general lockout.
• 25 November – The pro-Home RuleIrish Volunteers were formed at a meeting attended by 4,000 men in the Rotunda Rink in Dublin.^[6]
• 28 November –Bonar Law addressed a hugeunionist rally in the Theatre Royal in Dublin, declaring that if Home Rule was introducedUlster would resist and would have the support of his party.

• George A. Birmingham's comedyGeneral John Regan was premièred in London (8 January) andNew York City (13 November).
• Winifred Mary Letts publishedSongs from Leinster.
• Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan produced his playRope Enough.
• Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha's storyAn Baile S’Againne was published.
• Katharine Tynan'sIrish Poems was published.^[7]
• W. B. Yeats' poem "September 1913" was published inThe Irish Times during theDublin Lock-out (8 September).^[8] HisPoems Written in Discouragement is also published this year.
• English barrister and lyricistFrederic Weatherly published the ballad "Danny Boy" set to theLondonderry Air.
• Englishmusic hall comedianArthur Lucan met and married (25 November) 16-year-old actressKitty McShane in Dublin.

• International

  18 January Ireland 0–1 Wales (inBelfast)^[9]

  15 February Ireland 2–1 England (inBelfast)^[9]

  15 March Ireland 1–2 Scotland (inDublin)^[9]

• Irish League

  Winners:Glentoran

• Irish Cup

  Winners:Linfield 2–0Glentoran

• Derry Celtic were relegated and subsequently voted out of theIrish Football League; they never played senior football again.

• All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1913 Winners: Kerry
• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1913 Winners: Kilkenny

• 19 January –Matt O'Mahoney, international soccer player (died 1992).
• 22 January –William Conway,CardinalArchbishop of Armagh (died 1977).
• 30 January –Kevin Danaher, folklorist and writer (died 2002).
• 15 February –William Scott,Ulster Scots painter (died 1989).
• 13 March –Joe Kelly, motor racing driver (died 1993).
• 29 March –Niall MacGinnis, actor (died circa 1977).
• 13 April –David Grene, classical scholar (died 2002).
• 14 April –Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore, soldier anddeputy lieutenant forCounty Fermanagh (died 1960).
• 1 May –Maurice Gibson, Northern Irish judge (died1987).
• 19 May –Seán Moore,Fianna Fáil partyTeachta Dála (TD) (died 1986).
• 5 June –Peter Doherty, footballer (died 1990).
• 6 June –Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy, journalist and author (died 1980).
• 17 August –Harry Baird, soccer player (died 1973).
• 28 August –John Mackey,Limerick hurler (died 1989).
• 31 August –Jack Doyle, boxer, actor and singer (died 1978).
• 20 September –Bernard Bergin, cricketer (died 1985).
• 23 September –Samuel Edgar, cricketer (died 1937).
• 25 September –Tony O'Malley, painter (died 2003).
• 9 October –Harry Bradshaw, golfer (died 1990).
• 18 October –David Lord,Royal Air Force pilot, posthumous recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry atArnhem (died 1944).
• V24 November –Geraldine Fitzgerald, film & television actress (died 2005)
• 3 December –Gerry Healy, BritishTrotskyist leader (died 1989).
• Full date unknown –Sigerson Clifford, poet and playwright (died 1985).

• 3 January –James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, politician and diplomat (born 1838).
• 21 February –John Joseph Hogan, first Bishop of the Dioceses ofSaint Joseph, Missouri andKansas City, Missouri (born 1829).
• 15 March –Max Arthur Macauliffe, British administrator, scholar and author (born 1841).
• 25 March –Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, soldier (born 1833).
• 4 April –Edward Dowden, critic and poet (born 1843).
• 6 April –Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore, soldier, politician and Lord Lieutenant forCounty Tyrone (born 1835).
• 17 April –Barton McGuckin, tenor singer (born 1852).
• 25 April –Arthur Thomas Moore, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at theBattle of Khushab,Persia (born 1830).
• 22 May –Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, lawyer andLord Chancellor of Ireland (born 1837).
• 1 June –James O'Halloran, lawyer and politician inQuebec (born circa 1820).
• 1 October –Eugene O'Keefe, businessman and philanthropist inCanada (born 1827).
• 5 October –Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest, author and political activist (born 1852).
• 19 October –Emily Lawless, writer, died in England (born 1845).
• 18 December –Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, scholar and educator (born 1829 1829).

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