1897 in Ireland

1897 in Ireland

Events

* The Irish Motor Car and Cycle Company is established.

Arts and literature

* Bram Stoker's novel, "Dracula," is published for the first time.
* Amanda McKittrick Ros publishes "Irene Iddesleigh."

port

Football

*International::20 February England 6 - 0 Ireland (in Nottingham)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 155|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::6 March Ireland 4 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)::27 March Scotland 5 - 1 Ireland (in Glasgow)

*Irish League::Winners: Glentoran

*Irish Cup::Winners: Cliftonville 3 - 1 Sherwood Foresters

Births

*1 March - Robert Bowers, cricketer (d.1956).
*23 March - John Lighton Synge, mathematician and physicist (d.1995).
*4 April - Francis Evans, British diplomat (d.1983).
*26 May - Ernie O'Malley, prominent officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and on anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and a writer (d.1957).
*10 June - Moss (Maurice) Twomey, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (d.1978).
*1 July - Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence (d.1980).
*1 September - Andy Kennedy, footballer (d.1963).
*26 November - Tomás Ó Deirg, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1956).
*3 December - Kate O'Brien, novelist (d.1974).

Full date unknown

*Eddie Doyle, Kilkenny hurler (d.1948).
*Bob Fullam, soccer player (d.1974).
*Mainie Jellett, painter (d.1944).
*Maurice Moore, Irish republican who fought in the Irish War of Independence, executed (d.1921).
*Seán Óg Murphy, Cork hurler, Gaelic Athletic Association administrator (d.1965).
*Ed Reavy, fiddle player and songwriter (d.1988).
*Enid Starkie, literary critic and biographer (d.1970).

Deaths

*21 January - Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (b.1816).
*24 January - Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, novelist (b.1855).
*19 March - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, geographer (b.1810).
*1 April - William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin (b.1828).
*11 October - Charles W. Jones, lawyer and United States Senator in Florida (b.1834).
*31 October - Samuel Haughton, scientific writer (b.1821).
*25 November - John Coleman, United States Marine, recipient of Medal of Honor for his actions in 1871 during the Korean Expedition (b.1847).
*8 December - Mary O'Connell, nurse during the American Civil War (b.1814).

Full date unknown

*William R. Roberts, diplomat, Fenian Society member and United States Representative from New York (b.1830).

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