1903 in Ireland

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[edit] Events

• 3 January - The Norwegian ship, Remittent, is towed into quarantine in Queenstown (Cóbh). The entire crew are suffering from beriberi.
• 3 February - The proposed canonisation of Oliver Plunkett is discussed in Rome.
• 27 February - A meeting at the Mansion House enthusiastically welcomes a movement to establish St. Patrick's Day as a national holiday.
• 8 March - Charles Gavan Duffy is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. He is laid to rest near others who took part in the 1848 Rising.
• 26 March - Chief Secretary George Wyndham introduces the Irish Land Bill in the British House of Commons.
• 31 March - The Lord-Lieutenant announces that King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra intend to visit Ireland within the coming year.
• 15 May - The Chief Secretary for Ireland, George Wyndham, asks for support for his Irish Land Bill.
• 23 May - Extracts from the annual report of the British Army shows that there are 35,717 Irishmen in its service.
• 9 June - University of Dublin announces that it is to award degrees to women following a vote.
• 14 August - The Wyndham Land Act is passed in the British House of Commons. It offers special incentives to landlords to sell their entire estates.
• 5 September - Irish painter Henry Jones Thaddeus is granted permission to paint the first portrait of Pope Pius X.
• 13 November - The 2nd battalion of the Dublin Fusiliers is welcomed home after nearly 20 years of foreign service.
• 22 December - The well-known Irish optician, Patrick Cahill, who had the sole privilege of supplying the late Pope Leo XIII with spectacles, is to supply the present pontiff, Pope Pius X.

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• Pigeon House generating station in Dublin starts producing electricity

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• International

14 February - England 4 - 0 Ireland (in Wolverhampton)^[1]

21 March Scotland 0 - 2 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[1]

28 March Ireland 2 - 0 Wales (in Belfast)^[1]

• Irish League

Winners: Distillery

• Irish Cup

Winners: Distillery 3 - 1 Bohemians

• Bohemians becomes the first Dublin team to join the Irish Football League.
• The Oval football stadium, home of Glentoran, is rebuilt with the pitch being turned around ninety degrees.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 15 January - Joe Stynes, Irish Republican and sportsman (d.1991).
• 19 January - Alfred Lane Beit, British politician, art collector and philanthropist, honorary Irish citizen (d.1994).
• 28 January - Kathleen Lonsdale, X-ray crystallographer (d.1971).
• 2 February - Hilton Edwards, actor, director, co-founder of Gate Theatre (d.1982).
• 5 February - William Teeling, author, traveller and UK politician (d.1975).
• 23 February - Alec Mackie, soccer player (d.1984).
• 11 March - Michael Hilliard, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (d.1982).
• 13 March - Joseph Blowick second leader of Clann na Talmhan, TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1970).
• 5 April - Leo Rowsome, teacher, player and maker of uilleann pipes (d.1970).
• 12 April - Paddy Collins, Cork hurler.
• 25 May - Ewart Milne, poet (d.1987).
• 8 June - Harry Duggan, soccer player (d.1968).

[edit] July to December

• 18 July - Charles Hill, cricketer (d.1982).
• 5 August - Achey Kelly, cricketer (d.1961).
• 17 September - Frank O'Connor, short story writer and memoirist (d.1966).
• 6 October - Ernest Walton, physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics (d.1995).
• 1 November - Max Adrian, actor (d.1973).
• 18 December - Harry Forsyth, cricketer.

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• Leo Maguire, singer, songwriter and radio broadcaster (d.1985).
• Stanley Woods, motor cycle racer, with 29 Grand Prix wins and 10 Isle of Man TT wins (d.1993).

[edit] Deaths

• 9 February - Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (b.1816).
• 5 April - Mary Anne Sadlier, novelist (b.1820).
• 27 April - William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand (b.1819).
• 25 July - John Michael Clancy, Democrat United States Representative from New York (b.1837).
• 12 September - Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (b.1822).
• 22 October - William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (b.1838).
• 24 October - James William Adams, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Killa Kazi, Afghanistan (b.1839).

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• Charles O'Hea, Catholic Priest, baptised Ned Kelly and ministered to him before he was hanged in 1880 (b.1814).
• Walter Osborne, painter (b.1859).

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