1899 in Ireland

Events from the year 1899 in Ireland.

Events

14 January – Ocean liner RMS Oceanic is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
4 March – the first issue of Arthur Griffith and William Rooney's nationalist newspaper, The United Irishman, is published.
6 September – the foundation stone of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, is laid by the Countess of Shaftesbury.
11 October – the Second [Boer War] begins in South Africa. Major John MacBride raises the Irish Transvaal Brigade to aid the Boers. Nationalist Member of Parliament Michael Davitt withdraws from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in protest at the war.

8 May – the Irish Literary Theatre, founded by W. B. Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn, stages its first performance, a version of Yeats' verse drama The Countess Cathleen, at the Antient Concert Rooms in Great Brunswick Street, Dublin.
Somerville and Ross publish their first collection of humorous stories Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
W. B. Yeats publishes The Wind Amongst the Reeds.
The Rathmines and Rathgar music society is founded.

Tom Kiely establishes a world record in the hammer event. He becomes the first man to throw the hammer more than 160 feet.

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:Ulster Scots grocer Thomas Lipton makes his first unsuccessful challenge of the United States with ''Shamrock''

18 January – Sir Anthony Esmonde, 15th Baronet, Fine Gael TD and MEP.
21 January – John Bodkin Adams, general practitioner in Eastbourne cleared of murdering one of his patients.
13 March – Arthur Duff, composer and conductor.
10 April – Liam Ó Buachalla, Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann 1951-1954 and 1957-1969.
26 April – Jimmy O'Dea, comedian.
25 May – Lory Meagher, Kilkenny hurler.
7 June – Elizabeth Bowen, novelist and short story writer.
20 June – Robert Donovan, cricketer.
4 July – Alexander Armstrong, naval surgeon, explorer and author.
15 July – Seán Lemass, Fianna Fáil TD and founder member, Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach.
9 September – Arland Ussher, English-born academic, essayist and translator.
22 September – Mick Gill, Galway and Dublin hurler.
25 October – Micheál MacLiammóir, born Alfred Willmore, actor and dramatist.
26 November – Jacko Heaslip, cricketer.
10 December – Garrett Howard, Dublin and Limerick hurler.
Full date unknown
*Tommy Coleman, Irish volunteer.
*Patrick Giles, Fine Gael TD.
*Paddy McLogan, Sinn Féin President.
*David Neligan, policeman, "The Spy in the Castle" for Michael Collins.
*Eugene O'Mahony, entomologist and museum curator.

16 March – Alexander Balloch Grosart, Presbyterian minister and literary editor
19 March – Patrick Walsh, journalist, politician and mayor of Augusta, Georgia.
16 May – Frederick McCoy, palaeontologist and museum administrator in Australia.
5 June – Margaret Anna Cusack, nun, writer and founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace.
18 October – Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar.
8 November – Thomas Newenham Deane, architect.
17 December – Walter Shanly, civil engineer, author, businessman and politician in Canada.