1904 in Ireland

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Events

• 26 April - King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra arrive at Kingstown. The royal couple attend the Punchestown Races for the day.
• 2 May - The King and Queen travel to Waterford where they stay at Lismore Castle, home of the Duke of Devonshire.
• 2 June - Nave of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, is consecrated.
• Construction of Government Buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin, starts (finishes 1922).
• Start of 'Limerick Pogrom'.

Arts and literature

• 25 February - J. M. Synge's tragedy Riders to the Sea is first performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theatre Society.
• 16 June - Bloomsday: James Joyce meets Nora Barnacle on this day and later sets his novel Ulysses in Dublin on this day.
• 1 November - George Bernard Shaw's comedy about Ireland, John Bull's Other Island, opens at the Royal Court Theatre, London, after W. B. Yeats rejects it for the Abbey Theatre.
• 27 December - The Irish National Theatre Society (Abbey Theatre) opens to the public in Dublin for the first time. The bill consists of three one-act plays, On Baile's Strand and Cathleen Ní Houlihan by Yeats and Spreading the News by Lady Gregory.
• Lady Gregory publishes Gods and Fighting Men, a retelling of Irish mythology in English.
• 'Æ' (George William Russell) publishes The Divine Vision, and Other Poems.^[1]
• James Joyce's story "Eveline" is published.
• Arthur Griffith's The Resurrection of Hungary is published.

Sport

Football

• International

12 March Ireland 1 - 3 England (in Belfast)^[2]

21 March Wales 0 - 1 Ireland (in Bangor)^[2]

26 March Ireland 1 - 1 Scotland (in Dublin)^[2]

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 5 - 1 Derry Celtic

• Shelbourne becomes the second Dublin team to join the Irish Football League, after Bohemians, who joined the previous year.

Births

January to June

• 16 January - Frederick Boland, diplomat, first Irish ambassador to Britain and to the United Nations (died 1985).
• 26 January - Seán MacBride, former Clann na Poblachta TD, Cabinet Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Winner (died 1988).
• 19 February - Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, writer (died 1950).
• 29 February - James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn, soldier and politician (died 1979).
• 7 March - Jim Ganly, cricketer and rugby player (died 1976).
• 27 April - Cecil Day-Lewis, poet and writer, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, (died 1972).
• 7 May - David Sullivan, labour leader in USA (died 1976).
• 5 June - Derrick Kennedy, cricketer (died 1976).

July to December

• 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).

Full date unknown

• Dinny Barry-Murphy, Cork hurler (died 1973).
• Molly Keane, novelist and playwright (died 1996).
• Michael MacLaverty, novelist (died 1992).
• John "Pondoro" Taylor, hunter and writer (died 1969).

Deaths

• 22 January - George Salmon, mathematician and theologian (born 1819).
• 21 March - William Russell Grace, businessman and first Roman Catholic mayor of New York (born 1832).
• 5 April - Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (born 1822).
• 25 May - Richard Harte Keatinge, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Chundairee, India (born 1825).
• 20 October - Richard Phelan, fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (born 1828).
• 16 November - James Cooney, lawyer and Democratic politician in Missouri (born 1848).

Full date unknown

• Timothy J. Campbell, Democrat U.S. Representative from New York (born 1840).
• Edwin Hayes, watercolourist (born 1819).

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