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Events

Recruitment poster issued from Dublin, July 1915

Arts and literature

  • 1 February – Helen Waddell's first play, The Spoiled Buddha, is premiered at the Opera House, Belfast, by the Ulster Literary Society.
  • Francis Ledwidge's poems Songs of the Fields published.
  • James Stephens' poems The Adventures of Seumas Beg: the Rocky Road to Dublin and Songs from the Clay are published.[1]
  • The first dramatic film made in Ireland, Fun at Finglas Fair, is directed by F. J. McCormick. It is never released as all prints are destroyed in the Easter Rising of April 1916.[2]

Sport

Football

Births

  • 11 January – Paddy Mayne, international rugby union footballer and decorated soldier (died 1955).
  • 13 January – Kit Ahern, Fianna Fáil TD (died 2007).
  • 21 January – Andy O'Brien, Fine Gael senator from County Cavan (died 2006).
  • 25 January – Liam Cunningham, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1976).
  • 7 February – Mark Clinton, Fine Gael TD, Minister for Agriculture and MEP (died 2001).
  • 15 February – Sam Kydd, actor (died 1982).
  • 15 March – Micho Russell, tin whistle player and collector of traditional music and folklore (died 1994).
  • 9 April – Leonard Wibberley, author (died 1983).
  • 2 May – George Harrison, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and alleged gun-runner (died 2004).
  • 3 May – Walter Macken, novelist, dramatist and actor (died 1967).
  • 17 May – Oisín Kelly, sculptor (died 1981).
  • 6 August – Tom O'Reilly, Cavan Gaelic footballer and independent TD for Cavan 1944–1948 (died 1995)
  • 28 August – Patrick Hennessy, painter (died 1980).
  • 16 September – Eddie Filgate, Fianna Fáil TD (died 2017).
  • 16 October – Jim Young, Cork hurler (died 1992).
  • 18 September – James Tully, Labour Party TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1992).
  • 7 November – Bill Hayes, soccer player (died 1987).
  • 20 December – Noel Browne, politician, Cabinet Minister (died 1997).
    Full date unknown
    • John Graham, Irish Republican Army activist in the 1940s (died 1997).
    • Willie Murphy, Cork hurler (died 1977).

Deaths

See also

References

  1. ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  2. ^ Robinson, Patrick (2007). Film Facts. Wigston: Quantum Books. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-84573-235-6.
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