1904 in Ireland

none February 2021 August 2022 February 2021 1904 Events in the year 1904 in Ireland. Events 26 April – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra arrived at Kingstown. The royal couple attended the Punchestown Races for the day. 2 May – The King and Queen travelled to Waterford where they stayed at Lismore Castle, home of the Duke of Devonshire. Thomas Horgan of Youghal made the first known film in Ireland of this event.Patrick Robinson Film Facts Wigston Quantum Books 2007 978-1-84573-235-6 12 4 May – The final day of the royal visit to Ireland.Their Majesties' Visit to Ireland The Times London 1904-05-04 10 37385 2 June – The nave of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, was consecrated.The Cathedrals of the Church of Ireland Godfrey Day Day J.G.F. Henry Patton Patton H.E. 57 London S.P.C.K. 1932 27 June – The second Fastnet Rock lighthouse was first lit.https://www.irishlights.ie/tourism/our-lighthouses/fastnet.aspx Fastnet Lighthouse Commissioners of Irish Lights Our Lighthouses 30 July 2022 28 June – The Danish ocean liner, the Norge, was wrecked on Helen's Reef off Rockall with the loss of 635 lives.Per Kristian Sebak Titanic's Predecessor: the S/S Norge Disaster of 1904 Laksevaag Seaward 2004 82-996779-0-4 24 July – St Patrick's Cathedral was consecrated in Armagh town.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040717.2.172.33&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 IRISH CATHEDRAL READY TO BE SOLEMNLY BLESSED Priests From All Over World Will Attend Consecration of $2,500,000 Edifice in Armagh. XCVI 47 17 July 1904 Page 20, column 7 San Francisco Call 20 December 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collectionhttps://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040725.2.21&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 MANY ATTEND REOPENING OF ARMAGH CATHEDRAL Sacred Edifice in Use Again After Having Been Closed for Term of Four Years. XCVI 55 25 July 1904 Page 2, column 6 San Francisco Call 24 December 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collectionhttps://www.armagharchdiocese.org/history-cathedral/ https://web.archive.org/web/20191225122808/https://www.armagharchdiocese.org/history-cathedral/ 25 December 2019 live History of the Cathedral Archdiocese of Armagh 20 December 2022 Construction started of Government Buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin (finishes 1922). The Limerick Boycott began. The first "steamboat ladies" – female students at the women's colleges of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge – were awarded ad eundem degrees by Trinity College Dublin, at a time when their own universities refused to confer degrees upon women. The first woman, Isabel Marion Weir Johnston, began attending Trinity College Dublin. Arts and literature thumb|200px|Poster for opening run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin 22 January – Baritone Harry Plunket Greene made his first gramophone recordings. 25 February – J. M. Synge's tragedy Riders to the Sea was first performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theatre Society.Riders to the Sea 1920 16 May – James Joyce won a prize for singing at a Feis Ceoil held at the Antient Concert Rooms in Great Brunswick Street, Dublin.https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/joyce-s-winning-farewell-1.1393166 Lawler Mark Joyce's winning 'Farewell' The Irish Times Books 24 March 2022https://jamesjoyce.ie/on-this-day-16-may/ On this day...16 May 16 May 2014 The James Joyce Centre 24 March 2022 13 September 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220913153915/https://jamesjoyce.ie/on-this-day-16-may/ dead 16 June – The original "Bloomsday", the day James Joyce first walked out with his future wife Nora Barnacle (whom he first met on 10 June), to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend. He set the action of his novel Ulysses (1922) on today's date.Menand Louis Louis Menand Silence, Exile, Punning: James Joyce's chance encounters. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/02/silence-exile-punning The New Yorker A Critic at Large 25 June 2012 27 July 2022 1 September – The Leinster School of Music opened at 34 Harcourt Street, Dublin, by Samuel Myerscough. The school (which later added "Drama" to its title) became one of the examining bodies in Ireland for music and drama, moving to Griffith College, Dublin. 1 November – George Bernard Shaw's comedy about Ireland, John Bull's Other Island, opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, after W. B. Yeats rejected it for the Abbey Theatre. 27 December – The Irish National Theatre Society (Abbey Theatre) opened to the public in Dublin for the first time. The bill consisted of three one-act plays, On Baile's Strand and Cathleen Ní Houlihan by Yeats and Spreading the News by Lady Gregory. The Ulster Literary Theatre was established. Lady Gregory published Gods and Fighting Men, a retelling of Irish mythology in English. 'Æ' (George William Russell) published The Divine Vision, and Other Poems.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm James Joyce's story "Eveline" was published. Arthur Griffith's The Resurrection of Hungary was published. Peadar Ua Laoghaire's story ga Séadna was first published in book form.Welch Robert Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature Oxford University Press 0-19-280080-9 1996 Grace Rhys's story The Charming of Estercel was published. Sport Association football International 12 March – Ireland 1–3 England (in Belfast)Hayes Dean 2006 Northern Ireland International Football Facts Appletree Press Belfast 0-86281-874-5 158 21 March – Wales 0–1 Ireland (in Bangor) 26 March – Ireland 1–1 Scotland (in Dublin) Irish League Winners: Linfield F.C. Irish Cup Winners: Linfield F.C. 5–1 Derry Celtic F.C. Shelbourne F.C. became the second Dublin team to join the Irish Football League, after Bohemian F.C. who joined the previous year. Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's all-around Winner: Tom Kiely (in St. Louis, Missouri) Camogie 17 July – The first public game of camogie was played between Dublin teams Craobh an Chéitinnigh (Keatings branch of the Gaelic League) and Cúchulainns at a ga feis at the Meath agricultural showground in Navan. Births 16 January – Frederick Boland, diplomat, first Irish ambassador to Britain and to the United Nations (died 1985). 26 January – Seán MacBride, Clann na Poblachta party TD, Cabinet minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner (died 1988).Seán MacBride – Facts NobelPrize.org Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2021 15 December 2021 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1974/macbride/facts/ 19 February – Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, writer (drowned 1950).http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/o/OSuilleabhain_M/life.htm Muiris O Súilleabháin (1904-50) ricorso.net 26 December 2021 29 February – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn, soldier and politician (died 1979).https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-james-hamilton-6 Mr James Hamilton (Hansard) UK Parliament 26 December 2021 7 March – Jim Ganly, cricketer and rugby player (died 1976).https://www.dib.ie/index.php/biography/ganly-james-blandford-a3420 Allen Nicholas Ganly, James Blandford | Dictionary of Irish Biography Ganly, James Blandford Dictionary of Irish Biography October 2009 19 January 2022 10.3318/dib.003420.v1 27 April – Cecil Day-Lewis, poet and writer, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1967 to 1972 (died 1972).https://books.google.com/books?id=M3jUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 Stanford Peter Peter Stanford C Day-Lewis — A Life Continuum 2007 6 9780826486035 16 February 2022 Google Bookshttps://www.ballintubbert.com/our-story/history/ History Ballintubbert Gardens & House Our Story 16 February 2022 7 May – David Sullivan, labour leader in USA (died 1976).https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/LP001542.pdf David Sullivan Papers Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University 18 March 2022 5 June – Derrick Kennedy, cricketer (died 1976).https://www.cricketeurope.com/CSTATZ/IRELANDBIOS/k/kennedy_dedev.shtml Liddle Edward Derrick Edward DeVere Kennedy -later Sir De DeV Kennedy 6th Baronet cricketeurope.com April 2008 30 July 2022 30 July 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220730083341/https://www.cricketeurope.com/CSTATZ/IRELANDBIOS/k/kennedy_dedev.shtml dead 5 July – Michael McLaverty, novelist (died 1992). 20 July – Molly Keane (born Mary Nesta Skrine), novelist and playwright (died 1996).MOLLY KEANE http://www.virago.co.uk/author_results.asp?TAG=&CID=&PGE=&LANG=EN&ref=e2007030614553308&SF1=data&ST1=profile Virago Press https://web.archive.org/web/20071011230325/http://www.virago.co.uk/author_results.asp?TAG=&CID=&PGE=&LANG=EN&ref=e2007030614553308&SF1=data&ST1=profile 11 October 2007 23 January 2023http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119095294 Notice de personne "Keane, Molly (1904-1996)" Person notice "Keane, Molly (1904-1996)" Bibliothèque nationale de France fr 19 December 2007 23 January 2023 17 August – John "Pondoro" Taylor, hunter and writer (died 1969). 9 September – Jack Lawrence, cricketer (died 1984). 2 October – Dermot Boyle, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (died 1993). 21 October – Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist (died 1967). 13 December – William McCrea, astronomer and mathematician (died 1999). Deaths 22 January – George Salmon, mathematician and theologian (born 1819).https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Salmon/ O'Connor J J Robertson E F George Salmon (1819 - 1904) - Biography MacTutor History of Mathematics October 2003 School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland 21 December 2021 21 March – William Russell Grace, businessman and first Roman Catholic mayor of New York (born 1832).https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040322.2.79&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 FORMER MAYOR GRACE DIES OF PNEUMONIA IN NEW YORK Adam Grant, Distinguished as One of San Francisco's Most Successful Business Men, Passes Away—D. D. Shattuck, Commission Man, Dies of La Grippe 95 113 22 March 1904 Page 7, columns 2-4 San Francisco Call 8 February 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collectionhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/03/23/100466961.pdf DIED. The New York Times 23 March 1904 17 January 20221904 Arlington Journal Arlington, Texas 42 17 January 2022 https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf 23 March 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220323195647/https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf dead Brann Henry William Russell Grace The Catholic Encyclopedia 6 New York Robert Appleton Company 1909 17 January 2022 https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06714a.htm 5 April – Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (born 1822).https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040406.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 DEATHS OF THE DAY Frances Power Cobbe Los Angeles Herald XXXI 190 6 April 1904 Page 2, column 2 20 February 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collectionhttp://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb105223520 Notice de personne "Cobbe, Frances Power (1822-1904)" Person notice "Cobbe, Frances Power (1822-1904)" 22 March 2005 Bibliothèque nationale de France fr 16 February 2022 7 April – Timothy J. Campbell, Democratic party U.S. Representative from New York State (born 1840).CAMPBELL, Timothy John 1840 – 1904 https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000103 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 18 February 2022 25 May – Richard Harte Keatinge, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Chundairee, India (born 1825). 28 August – John Saul, prostitute (born 1857).The Sins of Jack Saul Glenn Chandler Glenn Chandler 2016 15 September – John Kelly, coal merchant of John Kelly Limited (born 1840).2014-10-14 John Kelly of Belfast - Shipping Today & Yesterday Magazine https://shippingtandy.com/features/john-kelly-belfast/ 2025-01-09 Shipping Today & Yesterday en-GB 13 August 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250813053124/https://shippingtandy.com/features/john-kelly-belfast/ dead 20 October – Richard Phelan, fourth Roman Catholic bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (born 1828). 16 November – James Cooney, lawyer and Democratic party politician in Missouri (born 1848). Full date unknown – Edwin Hayes, watercolourist (born 1819). See also 1904 in Scotland 1904 in Wales References Category:1900s in Ireland Ireland Category:Years of the 20th century in Ireland Ireland