1907 in Ireland

Events in the year 1907 in Ireland.

Events

2 January – A new system of rail cars running from Dublin Amiens Street station to Howth was introduced.
5 January – The first motor show under the auspices of the Irish Automobile Club opened at the Royal Dublin Society.
6 January – The Sunday provisions of the new Licensing Act come into operation in Dublin and four other cities. Sunday opening hours would be from 2pm to 5pm.
26 January – The first performance of J. M. Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin triggered a week of rioting.
4 May – The Irish International Exhibition opened in Dublin.
7 May – Augustine Birrell introduced the Irish Council Bill; it was rejected by a Nationalist convention on 21 May and dropped by the government on 3 June.
6 July – The Crown Jewels of Ireland, valued at £50,000, were stolen from a safe in Dublin Castle.
10-11 July – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra made a state visit to attend the Irish International Exhibition in Dublin.
26 July – A large rally was held in Belfast City Hall in support of the continuing Dockers and Carters strike.
4 September – An Irish Parliamentary Party meeting in the Mansion House, Dublin was disrupted by Sinn Féin who held a demonstration outside.
17 October – The Marconi transatlantic wireless telegraphy service between Galway and Canada was opened. Messages were exchanged without a hitch.
9 November – The Irish International Exhibition ended after six months. An estimated 2.75 million people visited it, including a large number from abroad.
November – Irish republican Tom Clarke returned to Ireland from the United States.

Arts and literature

26 January – Large sections of the audience booed the opening performance of J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre.
28 January – Another performance of The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre was interrupted by the audience who continued to boo, hiss and shout.
4 February – In a public debate at the Abbey Theatre, the poet W. B. Yeats denied trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of The Playboy of the Western World.
May – James Joyce's poems Chamber Music were published.
Early – Seven-year-old future author Elizabeth Bowen moved with her mother from Ireland to the south of England.
Publication of Padraic Colum's poems Wild Earth.
Peadar Kearney and Patrick Heeney wrote A Soldier's Song ; it later became Amhrán na bhFiann, the Irish national anthem.
Publication of County Cork-born retired Chicago chief of police Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland.

Sport

Association football

; International
: 16 February – England 1–0 Ireland
: 23 February – Ireland 2–3 Wales
: 16 March – Scotland 3–0 Ireland

Irish League
: Winners: Linfield F.C.
; Irish Cup
: Winners: Cliftonville F.C. 0–0, 1–0 Shelbourne F.C.

Golf

The British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship was held at Royal County Down Golf Club,.

Births

21 February – Colville Deverell, cricketer and politician.
1 March – Robert Malachy Burke, Christian Socialist and philanthropist.
15 May – John Galvin, Fianna Fáil party Teachta Dála .
1 June – Helen Megaw, crystallographer.
2 June – Dan O'Keeffe, Kerry Gaelic footballer.
29 June – Paul O'Dwyer, lawyer and politician in the United States.
13 July – John David Gwynn, cricketer.
15 July – Séamus Murphy, sculptor.
14 August – H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament .
14 September
* Janet McNeill, novelist and playwright
* Edel Quinn, lay missionary.
8 October – J. G. Devlin, actor.
28 October – John Hewitt, poet.
1 November – Bill Loughery, cricketer.
26 November – Theodore William Moody, historian.
19 December – Jimmy McLarnin, boxer.
;Full date unknown
:* Desmond Clarke, librarian and writer.
:* Maura Laverty, writer, journalist, and broadcaster.
:* Áine Ní Cheanainn, educationalist
:* Margot Ruddock, actress, poet, and singer.
:* Henry Tyrell-Smith, motor cycle racer.

Deaths

16 January – Daniel John O'Donoghue, printer, labour leader, and politician in Ontario.
20 January – Agnes Mary Clerke, astronomer and writer.
31 January – Timothy Eaton, businessman, founded Eaton's department store in Canada.
11 February – William Howard Russell, journalist.
16 March – John O'Leary, Irish poet and Fenian.
9 April – Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic.
1 May – John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist, and historian of economic thought.
10 June – Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer.
8 July – John Horgan, politician and member of the Western Australian Legislative Council.
3 August – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor.
7 August – James Brenan, artist.
13 August – George Charlemont, former Gaelic footballer.
17 November – Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy officer, explorer in Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
17 December – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences.
; Full date unknown
:* Robert Cain, brewer and businessman.
:* Denis Kearney, politician in America.