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• March – Construction in Queenstown ofSt Colman's Cathedral, Cobh, concluded with completion of the spire.
• 4 April – Twenty-five thousandNational Volunteers assembled at thePhoenix Park,Dublin.John Redmond took the salute from under the statue ofCharles Stewart Parnell onSackville Street.
• 5 April – At the National Volunteers convention at theMansion House, Dublin, John Redmond praised their response toWorld War I.
• 7 May –Sinking of theLusitania: Britishocean linerRMS Lusitania was sunk byImperial German NavyU-boatU-20 about 11 miles (18 km) offOld Head of Kinsale,County Cork, killing 1,198 civilians en route fromNew York toLiverpool, among them the Irish-born art dealer and benefactor SirHugh Lane and Irish composer and conductorThomas O'Brien Butler.

• 25 May – Theprime minister of the United Kingdom formed theAsquith coalition ministry, a national wartimecoalition government of twelve Liberals, eight Unionists and one Labour member. In Dublin, the Irish Parliamentary Party approved John Redmond's decision not to join.
• 29 July –Republicans, led byPatrick Pearse, took over theGaelic League at itsDundalk conference.Douglas Hyde resigned as its president.
• 1 August –O'Donovan Rossa was buried atGlasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, and Patrick Pearse deliveredthe graveside oration ("Ireland unfree shall never be at peace").
• 26 December – TheIrish Republican Brotherhood Military Council decided to stage anEaster Rising in 1916.
• TheElim Pentecostal Church was founded inMonaghan byWelsh evangelistGeorge Jeffreys.

• 1 February –Helen Waddell's first play,The Spoiled Buddha, was premiered at the Opera House, Belfast, by the Ulster Literary Society.
• Francis Ledwidge's poemsSongs of the Fields were published.
• James Stephens' poemsThe Adventures of Seumas Beg: the Rocky Road to Dublin andSongs from the Clay were published.^[1]
• The first dramatic film made in Ireland,Fun at Finglas Fair, was directed byF. J. McCormick. It was never released as all prints were destroyed in the Easter Rising of April 1916.^[2]

• Irish League

  Winners:Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

  Winners:Linfield 1–0Belfast Celtic

• 11 January –Paddy Mayne, internationalrugby union footballer and decorated soldier (died 1955).
• 13 January –Kit Ahern,Fianna Fáil partyTeachta Dála (TD) (died 2007).
• 21 January –Andy O'Brien,Fine Gael party senator from County Cavan (died 2006).
• 25 January –Liam Cunningham, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1976).
• 7 February –Mark Clinton, Fine Gael TD, Minister for Agriculture and Member of the European Parliament (died 2001).
• 15 February –Sam Kydd, actor (died 1982).
• 15 March –Micho Russell, tin whistle player and collector of traditional music and folklore (died 1994).
• 9 April –Leonard Wibberley, author (died 1983).
• 2 May –George Harrison, member of theProvisional Irish Republican Army and alleged gun-runner (died 2004).
• 3 May –Walter Macken, novelist, dramatist and actor (died 1967).
• 17 May –Oisín Kelly, sculptor (died 1981).
• 18 June –Joan Trimble, composer, pianist and newspaper proprietor (died 2000).
• 6 August –Tom O'Reilly, Cavan Gaelic footballer and independent TD forCavan 1944–1948 (died 1995)
• 28 August –Patrick Hennessy, painter (died 1980).
• 16 September –Eddie Filgate, Fianna Fáil TD (died 2017).
• 16 October –Jim Young,Cork hurler (died 1992).
• 18 September –James Tully,Labour Party TD and cabinet minister (died 1992).
• 7 November –Bill Hayes, football player (died 1987).
• 20 December –Noel Browne, politician, cabinet minister (died 1997).

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• John Graham,Irish Republican Army activist in the 1940s (died 1997).
• Willie Murphy,Cork hurler (died 1977).

• 20 January –Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, businessman, politician, and philanthropist (born 1840).
• 26 January –Michael Sullivan, physician, professor and politician in Canada (born 1838).
• 28 January –David Dickson Rogers, politician inOntario (born 1845).
• 14 February –Cornelius Coughlan, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 atDelhi, India (born 1828).
• 24 April –Frederick William Hall, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 during theSecond Battle of Ypres in Belgium (born 1885).
• 7 May – On board theRMS Lusitania:
  • O'Brien Butler, composer (born 1861).
  • Hugh Lane, establishedMunicipal Gallery of Modern Art in Dublin (born 1875).
• 29 June –Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa,Fenian leader (born 1831).
• 2 August –William Abraham,Irish NationalistMember of Parliament (born 1840).
• 21 August –Gerald Robert O'Sullivan, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 atGallipoli, Turkey (born 1888).
• 21 August –Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, peer and soldier (born 1864).
• 25 September –Joseph Lynch, cricketer (born 1880).
• 10 October –Albert Cashier, soldier in theUnion Army during theAmerican Civil War, physically female, but lived as a man (born 1843).
• 21 December –Violet Florence Martin, author (born 1862).

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