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Events from the year1914 in Ireland.

• 17 January –Edward Carson inspected a parade of the EastBelfast Regiment of theUlster Volunteers.
• 20 February – TheFethard-on-Sealife-boatcapsized on service off theCounty Wexford coast: nine crew were lost.^[1]
• 26 February –HMHS Britannic, designed as the third and largestOlympic-classocean liner, was launched at theHarland & Wolff shipyards inBelfast.
• 1 March – Three outbreaks offoot and mouth disease were confirmed inCounty Cork.
• 9 March – The BritishPrime Minister proposed to allow theUlster counties to hold a vote on whether or not to join a Home Rule parliament inDublin.
• 20 March –Curragh incident:British Army officers stationed in Ireland at theCurragh Camp resigned their commissions rather than be ordered to resist action byUnionist Ulster Volunteers if theGovernment of Ireland Act ("Third Home Rule Bill") was passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.^[2] The government backs down and they are reinstated.
• 2 April –Cumann na mBan, theIrish republican women's paramilitary organisation, was formed in Dublin as an auxiliary of theIrish Volunteers.^[3]
• 6 April – The second reading of the Home Rule Bill was carried inWestminster.
• 24–25 April –Larne Gun Running: 35,000 rifles and over 3 million rounds of ammunition from a German dealer were landed atLarne,Bangor, andDonaghadee for the Unionist Ulster Volunteers and were quickly distributed around Ulster by motor transport.^[2]
• 25 May – theHouse of Commons of the United Kingdom passed theGovernment of Ireland Bill.
• 23 June—14 July – the Government of Ireland Bill passed through theHouse of Lords. It allowed Ulster counties to vote on whether or not they wanted to come under Dublin's jurisdiction. Because of the outbreak of war in Europe and later developments in Ireland, the Act was never implemented in its original form and the wishes of countiesFermanagh andTyrone were eventually ignored.
• 10 July – The Provisional Government of Ulster met for the first time in the Ulster Hall. It vowed to keep Ulster in trust for the King and the British constitution.^[4]
• 21 July – A conference (called on 19 July) was opened atBuckingham Palace by the King. It was hoped thatunionists andnationalists attending would break the impasse over Home Rule.
• 24 July – The Buckingham Palace conference ended in failure. Nationalists and Unionists present could not agree in principle or in detail.
• 26 July –Howth gun-running: Former British civil servant and novelistErskine Childers and his wifeMolly sailed intoHowth in his yachtAsgard and landed 2,500 guns for the nationalistIrish Volunteers from a German dealer. Troops of theKing's Own Scottish Borderers, returning to Dublin having been called out to assist police in attempting to prevent the Volunteers from moving the arms to the city, perpetrated theBachelor's Walk massacre, firing on a crowd of protestors at Bachelors Walk, killing three; a fourth man died later from bayonet wounds and more than 30 others were injured.^[5]
• 4 August –World War I:Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on theGerman Empire.^[6]
• September – TheUlster Division was formed as a division of the BritishNew Army from Ulster Volunteers.
• 18 September – TheGovernment of Ireland Act (the Home Rule Act) receivedRoyal Assent (althoughGeorge V had contemplated refusing it)^[7] but was postponed (as projected on 30 July) for the duration ofWorld War I^[2] by the simultaneousSuspensory Act and in practice never came into effect in its original form.
• 20 September – In a speech atWoodenbridge,County Wicklow,John Redmond called on members of theIrish Volunteers to go "wherever the firing line extends". The majority did so, fighting in the10th and16th (Irish) Division alongside their volunteer counterparts from the36th (Ulster) Division; the rump Irish Volunteers split off on 24 September.^[2]
• 2 October – German spyCarl Hans Lody was arrested at theGreat Southern Hotel,Killarney.^[8]
• 18 October – The BritishRoyal Navy'sGrand Fleet took shelter inLough Swilly whileScapa Flow was secured against submarine attack.^[9]
• 27 October –World War I: Royal Navy super-dreadnought battleshipHMS Audacious (23,400 tons), was sunk offTory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiserBerlin.
• 5 December – TheIrish Volunteers appointed a headquarters staff, withEoin MacNeill as chief of staff.^[10]
• Welsh evangelistGeorge Jeffreys established his first church in Belfast, predecessor of theElim Pentecostal Church.

• February
  • James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novelA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man commenced serialization inThe Egoist (London).
  • Lord Dunsany's collectionFive Plays was published in London.
• 4 February – A staging ofGeorge A. Birmingham's comedyGeneral John Regan atWestport Town Hall provoked a riot.^[11]
• June – James Joyce'sDubliners, a collection of fifteen short stories depicting the Irish middle classes in and around Dublin during the early 20th century, was published in London.
• Terence MacSwiney's contemporary playThe Revolutionist was published (first performed 1921).^[12]

• Ireland won theBritish Home Championship football tournament outright for the first time.
  • 19 January – Wales 1–2 Ireland (inWrexham)^[13]
  • 14 February – England 0–3 Ireland (inMiddlesbrough)^[13]
  • 14 March – Ireland 1–1 Scotland (inBelfast)^[13]

• Irish League

  Winners:Linfield

• Irish Cup

  Winners:Glentoran 3–1Linfield

• Balmoral Golf Club opened in Belfast.

• 15 January –James Flanagan (inDerry), only Roman CatholicChief Constable of theRoyal Ulster Constabulary (died 1999).
• 18 January –Patrick Lindsay,Fine Gael partyTeachta Dála (TD) and lawyer (died 1993).
• 23 February –Sheila Galvin,Fianna Fáil party TD (died 1983).
• 10 March –Michael Torrens-Spence, held commissions in theRoyal NavyFleet Air Arm, theRoyal Air Force, theBritish Army,Ulster Special Constabulary andUlster Defence Regiment (died 2001).
• 30 March –Eamon Kelly, actor (died 2001).
• 28 May –William Blease, Baron Blease, trade unionist and politician (died 2008).
• 19 June –Julia Clifford, fiddle player and traditional musician (died 1997).
• 1 July –John Feenan, footballer (died 1994)
• 10 July –Charles Donnelly, poet, killed at theJarama Front,Spanish Civil War (died 1937).
• 30 July –Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, journalist, author, sports official and sixth president of theInternational Olympic Committee (died 1999).
• 5 August –Charles Cuffe, cricketer (died 1972).
• 10 September –Terence O'Neill, FourthPrime Minister of Northern Ireland (died 1990).
• 13 September –Michael F. Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1974).
• 8 November –Jackie Brown, footballer (died 1990).
• 14 November –Joseph Barnes, medical missionary (died 2017).
• 10 December –Séamus Dolan,Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann 1977–1981 (died 2010).
• 31 December –Ernest Gébler, writer (died 1998).

  Full date unknown

  • Aidan MacCarthy, doctor,RAF medical officer, captured by theJapanese during theSecond World War (died 1992).
  • Eddie McAteer,Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)MP (died 1986).
  • Sydney Sparkes Orr, Professor ofPhilosophy at theUniversity of Tasmania (died 1966).

• 7 January –Patrick Weston Joyce, historian and musicologist (born 1827).
• 23 February –Thomas McCarthy Fennell,Fenianpolitical prisonertransported toWestern Australia (born 1841).
• 4 March –William Hamilton, cricketer (born 1859).
• 25 March –Robert James McMordie, solicitor, politician andLord Mayor of Belfast (born 1849).
• 31 March –Timothy Daniel Sullivan, journalist, politician and poet, wrote the Irish national hymnGod Save Ireland (born 1827).
• 19 May –Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer, killed at1914 Isle of Man TT races (born 1876).
• 23 June –Colonel John Burke, soldier in America (born 1838).
• 28 June –Patrick James Foley, politician (born 1836)
• 12 August –John Philip Holland, engineer, developed the firstRoyal Navysubmarine (born 1840).^[14]
• 1 September –George Henry Morris, soldier, firstcommanding officer to lead anIrish Guardsbattalion into battle, killed in action (born 1872).
• 15 October –Anthony Traill, provost ofTrinity College Dublin (born 1838).
• 2 November –Charles FitzClarence, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 nearMafeking, killed in action (born 1865).
• 10 November –Lydia Shackleton, botanical artist (born 1828).
• 22 December –John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer, lawyer and politician inCanada (born 1848).
• 26 December –Thomas Kelly-Kenny,British Army general who served in theSecond Boer War (born 1840).

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