1902 in Ireland

Events in the year 1902 in Ireland.

Events

2 January – The South Irish Horse cavalry was formed as the South of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry.
7 January – Waterford Corporation passed a motion to confer the freedom of the city on John Redmond.
8 January – The Great National Convention took place in the Round Room of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. Motions were passed regarding coercion, the Irish language and evicted tenants.
2 April – John Redmond was awarded the freedom of the City of Dublin.
Spring to autumn – The Cork International Exhibition (1902) was held.
22 May – The White Star Liner SS Ionic was launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
2 June – The centenary of the Congregation of Christian Brothers was celebrated with High Mass in the Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago.
22 July – Thomas Croke died at the age of 78 in Thurles. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel since 1875, he was the first patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association and a supporter of the Gaelic League and the Land League.
August – The first part of the cliff path at The Gobbins, Islandmagee, was opened.
26 November – Ireland's Own magazine was launched.
The Dunraven land conference started.
The Roman Catholic St Brendan's Cathedral, Loughrea, was completed.

2 April – W. B. Yeats's play Cathleen Ní Houlihan was first performed in Dublin.
Michael McCarthy's Priests and People in Ireland was published.
The Irish Literary Theatre project ended.
Padraic Colum's anti-enlistment play, The Saxon Shillin' , was awarded a prize by Cumann na nGaedheal.
Percy French wrote the comic song Are Ye Right There Michael?
Augusta, Lady Gregory, published Cuchulain of Muirthemne, a retelling of Irish mythology in English.
Walter Osborne painted his last work, Tea in the Garden, in Dublin.

2 January – Dan Keating, Ireland's oldest man and last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence
13 January – Francis Connell, cricketer.
20 January – Kevin Barry, Republican Army">Second Spanish Republic">Republican Army member.
26 February – Jim Hurley, veteran of the Irish War of Independence, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
25 April – Cormac Breslin, Fianna Fáil party Teachta Dála and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann.
29 April – Francis Stuart, writer.
20 July – Jimmy Kennedy, songwriter.
21 July – William Bernard Barry, politician in the United States.
16 August – Arthur Douglas, cricketer and rugby player.
4 September – Patrick Lenihan, Fianna Fáil party TD.
11 September – Frank Ryan, member of the Irish Republican Army, editor of An Phoblacht, leftist activist and leader of Irish volunteers on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
16 September – James Dillon, former leader of the Fine Gael party, TD and government minister.
2 October – Alexander Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester, born Viscount Mandeville, British Royal Navy officer and hereditary peer.
16 December – Billy King, cricketer.
29 December – Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford, politician, dramatist, and poet.
December – Maurice Gerard Moynihan, civil servant and writer.
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* Thekla Beere, civil servant.
* Frank Carney, playwright and civil servant.
* Maurice Gorham, journalist and broadcasting executive.
* Patrick MacDonogh, poet.

20 January – Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic.
12 February – Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, politician, diplomat, and traveller.
10 March – C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia.
21 April – Ethna Carbery, writer and poet.
29 May – Edward Harrington, Member of Parliament for West Kerry 1885–1892
20 July – John William Mackay, businessman in the United States.
22 July – Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
23 December – Lucius Gwynn, cricketer.
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* John O'Hart, genealogist.