1911 in Ireland

Events

• 5 January – Protestant church leaders condemned the Ne Temere Papal decree on mixed marriages.
• 2 April – The national population census was taken.
• 16 May – The Cunard Line's struck a rock on entering Queenstown harbour.
• 27 May – The first issue of the Irish Worker was published. The paper was the official organ of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and was edited by James Larkin.
• 31 May – The RMS Titanic's hull was launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. It was the largest ship afloat. Her sister sailed for Liverpool the same day to take up transatlantic service.
• 22 June – As George V was crowned King in London a Sinn Féin meeting at the Customs House in Dublin condemned Irish participation in the coronation ceremonies.
• 8-12 July – King George V and Queen Mary made a five-day royal visit to Dublin which was the last to the city this century. On 8 July, they officially open the College of Science in Merrion Square and on 10 July they visited St Patrick's College, Maynooth.
• 9 August – A statue of Charles Stewart Parnell was hoisted onto its pedestal in Sackville Street, Dublin.
• 17 August – Dublin County Council voted in favour of using Greenwich Mean Time. The councillors heard that Irish time, being 25 minutes behind Greenwich, was a great handicap for trade.
• 18 August – The Parliament Act removed the House of Lords' power regarding budgets and restricted their power over other bills to a two-year suspensive veto. This made Irish Home Rule a possibility in the future.
• 21 August – The Irish Women's Suffrage Federation was founded.
• 26 August – Wexford foundry workers were locked out for attempting to join the ITGWU. The lockout continued until February 1912.
• 23 September – 70,000 Unionists and Orangemen marched from Belfast to Craigavon House to protest against Home Rule.
• 1 October – The monument to Parnell was officially unveiled in Upper Sackville Street, Dublin.
• ; Full date unknown
• * A strike of women workers at Jacob's biscuit factory in Dublin was organised by Rosie Hackett.
• * The organisation Royal Arch Purple was formed, closely linked to the Orange Institution.
• * Bellevue Pleasure Gardens, a public park and recreational area, was opened on the slopes of Cavehill in Belfast.
• * Sir Samuel Kelly founded his family coal merchant business as a limited company with a capital of £50,000, as John Kelly Limited.

Arts and literature

• 16 April – St. John Greer Ervine's play Mixed Marriage premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
• 16 December – The Imperial Copyright Act confirmed the library of Trinity College Dublin as one of the six in the UK entitled to be given by legal deposit a copy of every British publication.
• The Kalem Company of New York shot a film based on the play The Colleen Bawn on location in Ireland with Canadian Irish director Sidney Olcott.
• Patrick MacGill's Songs of a Navvy was published.
• Adam Lynn's Ulster Scots dialect Random Rhymes frae Cullybackey was published.
• W. F. Marshall's poems Ulster Sails West, including "Hi Uncle Sam!", was published.
• The first volume, Ave, of novelist George Moore's three-volume autobiographical Hail and Farewell was published in the same year that he left Dublin to settle in London.
• Katharine Tynan Hinkson's New Poems was published.

Sport

Association football

• ; International
• * 28 January – Ireland 1–2 Wales
• * 11 February – England 2–2 Ireland
• * 18 March – Scotland 2–0 Ireland
• ; Irish League
• * Winners: Linfield F.C.
• ; Irish Cup
• * Winners: Shelbourne F.C. 0 – 0, 2 – 1 Bohemian F.C.
• Glenavon F.C. joined the Irish Football League, replacing Bohemian F.C. who had resigned from the League, but returned next year.

Gaelic Games

• All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1911 Winners: Cork
• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1911 Winners: Kilkenny
• Meath were declared Leinster football champions for 20 minutes, but when Kilkenny arrived late for the final, Meath agreed to play the match and were beaten.

Golf

• Cliftonville Golf Club was founded in Belfast.

Rugby

• 11 February – Ireland beat England by one try to nil at the first Rugby Union international of the season at Lansdowne Road.

Births

• 31 January – Eddie Byrne, actor.
• 3 February – Tom Davis, association football player.
• 4 February – Jimmy Walsh, Kilkenny hurler.
• 12 February – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Attorney-General, Chief Justice of Ireland and fifth President of Ireland.
• 28 February – Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon.
• 5 March – Joseph Tomelty, actor, novelist, and playwright.
• 5 May – James Horan, Roman Catholic monsignor, conceived and created Ireland West Airport.
• 17 May – Maureen O'Sullivan, actress.
• 27 July – Donal Lamont, Catholic Bishop in Rhodesia.
• 29 July – Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1940 near Dunkirk in France.
• 8 August – Billy Behan, association football player and football scout.
• 18 September – Brinsley Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, ufologist and politician.
• 24 September – James Gill, cricketer.
• 5 October – Brian O'Nolan, also known as Myles na gCopaleen, novelist, satirist, and humourist.
• 11 October – Fred Daly, golfer.
• 19 October – John de Courcy Ireland, maritime historian and political activist.
• 26 December – John 'Tull' Dunne, Gaelic footballer, coach and administrator.
• Full date unknown
• * Jimmy Kelly, association football player.
• * Con Lehane, nationalist, member of the IRA Army Council, and Dáil representative.

Deaths

• 3 February – Robert Tressell, writer and author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
• 1 August – Dudley Stagpoole, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 in New Zealand.
• 16 August – Patrick Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney.
• 5 September – Katherine Cecil Thurston, novelist.
• 23 September – Daniel O'Reilly, U.S. Representative from New York.