1913 in Ireland

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Events

• 30 January - At Westminster the House of Lords rejects the 3rd Home Rule Bill by 326 to 69.
• 7 July - The Home Rule Bill is once again carried in the House of Commons, despite attempts by Bonar Law to obstruct it.
• 26 August - Dublin Lock-out: Social unrest in Dublin as members of James Larkin's Irish Transport and General Workers' Union begin strike action.
• 1 September - Protest by locked-out workers lead to serious riots in Dublin. Shops are looted and attempts are made to tear up tram lines.
• 3 September - A meeting of 400 employers with William Martin Murphy pledges not to employ any persons who continue to be members of the Irish Transport & General Workers' Union.
• 7 September - A large meeting in Sackville Street asserts the right of free speech, trade union representation and demands an enquiry into police conduct.
• 17 September - In Newry, Edward Carson says that a Provisional Government will be established in Ulster if Home Rule is introduced. Meanwhile in Dublin, labour unrest grows with a march 5,000 through the city.
• 27 September - 12,000 Ulster Volunteers parade at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society's show grounds at Balmoral in protest at the Home Rule Bill.
• 27 September - In Dublin the food ship, The Hare, arrives bringing forty tons of food raised by British trade unionists.
• 6 October - An official report on the lockout suggests that workers should be reinstated without having to give a pledge not to join the ITGWU.
• 16 October - 4,000 men and women march through Dublin in support of James Larkin and the Transport Union.
• 27 October - James Larkin of the ITGWU is sentenced to seven months in prison for seditious language.
• 10 November - The Dublin Volunteer Corps enrolls over 2,000 men. They declare they will preserve the "civil and religious liberties" of Protestants outside Ulster in the event of Irish Home Rule.
• 19 November - The Irish Citizen Army is launched at a meeting of the Dublin Civic League in Dublin. The army is founded by James Connolly to protect workers in the general lockout.
• 25 November - The Irish Volunteers are formed at a meeting attended by 4,000 men in Dublin's Rotunda Rink.
• 28 November - Andrew Bonar Law addresses a huge unionist rally in the Theatre Royal in Dublin, declaring that if Home Rule is introduced Ulster will resist and will have the support of his party.

Arts and literature

• W. B. Yeats' poem "September 1913" is published in The Irish Times during the Dublin Lock-out.^[1]

Sport

Gaelic games

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

Football

• International

18 January Ireland 0 - 1 Wales (in Belfast)^[2]

15 February Ireland 2 - 1 England (in Belfast)^[2]

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

• Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 2 - 0 Glentoran

• Derry Celtic are relegated and subsequently voted out of the Irish Football League; they never play senior football again.

Births

January to June

• 19 January - Matt O'Mahoney, international soccer player (died 1992).
• 22 January - William Conway, Cardinal Archbishop 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 (d. c1977).
• 14 April - Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore, soldier and Deputy Lieutenant for County Fermanagh (died 1960).
• 1 May - Maurice Gibson, Northern Irish judge (died 1987).
• 19 May - Seán Moore, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1986).
• 5 June - Peter Doherty, footballer (died 1990).
• 6 June - Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy, journalist and author (died 1980).

July to December

• 17 August - Harry Baird, soccer player (died 1973).
• 31 August - Jack Doyle, boxer, actor and singer (died 1978).
• 20 September - Bernard Bergin, cricketer (died 1985).
• 23 September - Samuel Edgar, cricketer (died 1937).
• 9 October - Harry Bradshaw, golfer (died 1990).
• 18 October - David Lord, Royal Air Force pilot, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at Arnhem (died 1944).
• 3 December - Gerry Healy, British Trotskyist leader (died 1989).

Full date unknown

• Sigerson Clifford, poet and playwright (died 1985).
• David Grene, classical scholar (died 2002).
• Tony O'Malley, painter (died 2003).

Deaths

• 3 January - James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, politician and diplomat (born 1838).
• 21 February - John Joseph Hogan, first Bishop of the Dioceses of Saint Joseph, Missouri and Kansas 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 for County Tyrone (born 1835).
• 17 April - Barton McGuckin, tenor singer (born 1852).
• 25 April - Arthur Thomas Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at the Battle of Khushab, Persia (born 1830).
• 22 May - Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, lawyer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (born 1837).
• 1 June - James O'Halloran, lawyer and politician in Quebec.
• 1 October - Eugene O'Keefe, businessman and philanthropist in Canada (born 1827).
• 5 October - Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest, author and political activist (born 1852).

Full date unknown

• Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, scholar and educator (born 1829).
• Emily Lawless, writer (born 1845).

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