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Events in '''1909 in Ireland'''.
==Events==
* 31 October – The Royal University of Ireland was dissolved.
* 14 December – [[Ernest Shackleton]] delivered a lecture entitled ''Nearest the South Pole'' in the large hall of the National University in [[Dublin]].
* 31 December – [[Harry Ferguson]] became the first person to fly an aircraft in Ireland, in a monoplane he designed and built himself.
* The [[Mater Infirmorum Hospital]] in [[Belfast]] was officially recognised as a university teaching hospital.
* Fieldwork for the multidisciplinary [[Clare Island Survey]] commenced under the direction of [[Robert Lloyd Praeger]].

==Arts and literature==
* 1 April – [[Lennox Robinson]]'s first play, ''The Cross Roads'', was performed at the [[Abbey Theatre]] in Dublin; he became the theatre manager later in the year.
* 22 July – Widowed Irish painter [[John Lavery]] married [[Irish American]] painter [[Hazel Lavery|Hazel Martyn]].
* 20 August – The tenor [[Enrico Caruso]] performed at the Theatre Royal in Dublin.
* 20 December – The first dedicated cinema in Ireland, the [[Volta Cinematograph]], opened in Dublin under the management of writer [[James Joyce]].<ref>{{cite book|title=[[James Joyce (biography)|James Joyce]]|author-link=Richard Ellmann|first=Richard|last=Ellmann|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|orig-year=1959|year=1982|page=303|isbn=0-19-281465-6}}</ref>
* [[Herbert Hughes (composer)|Herbert Hughes]]' collection of folk songs, ''Irish Country Songs'', was published, including "[[She Moved Through the Fair]]" with words largely composed by [[Padraic Colum]].
* [[Ella Young]]'s first work of Irish folklore, ''The Coming of Lugh'', was published.

==Sport==


===Association football===
*;International
** 13 February – England 4–0 Ireland (in [[Bradford]])<ref name="DH">{{cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast|isbn=0-86281-874-5 | page=1}}</ref>
** 15 March – Scotland 5–0 Ireland (in [[Glasgow]])<ref name="DH"/>
** 20 March – Ireland 2–3 Wales (in [[Belfast]])<ref name="DH"/>

*;[[Irish Football League|Irish League]]
*:Winners: [[Linfield F.C.]]

*;[[Irish Cup]]
*:Winners: [[Cliftonville F.C.]] 0–0 draw; replay result 2-1 [[Bohemian F.C.]]

==Births==
* 9 January – [[Patrick Peyton]], priest who promoted the [[Rosary]] (died 1992).
* 16 January – [[Muriel Brandt]], painter (died 1981 in Northern Ireland).
* 30 January – [[George Crothers]], cricketer (died 1982 in Northern Ireland).
* 1 February – [[Timothy McAuliffe]], [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] politician (died 1985).
* 8 March – [[Francis MacManus]], novelist (died 1965).
* 3 April – [[Knox Cunningham]], barrister, businessman and [[Ulster Unionist Party|Ulster Unionist]] politician (died 1976).
* 19 April – [[Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander]], [[cryptanalyst]], chess player and chess writer (died 1974).
* 24 April –
** [[Robert Farren]] (Roibeárd Ó Faracháin), poet (died 1984).
** [[David Beers Quinn]], historian (died 2002).<ref>{{cite web|last1=Dutton|first1=David|title=Obituary: David Quinn|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/apr/06/guardianobituaries.highereducation|website=The Guardian|access-date=11 January 2018|date=6 April 2002}}</ref>
* 30 April – [[F. E. McWilliam]], sculptor (died 1992).
* 4 June – [[Robert Dudley Edwards]], historian (died 1988).
* 7 July – [[Cecilia Thackaberry]], [[Presentation Sisters]] nun, killed in Nigeria performing relief work (died 1969).
* 24 July – [[Geoffrey Bing]], lawyer and Labour politician in UK (died 1977 in Northern Ireland).
* 31 July – [[Martin White (hurler)|Martin White]], [[Kilkenny GAA|Kilkenny]] hurler (died 2011).
* 1 August – [[W. R. Rodgers]], writer, broadcaster, teacher and Presbyterian minister (died 1969).
* 4 October – [[Paddy Moore]], association football player (died 1951).
* 7 October – [[Michael O'Neill (politician)|Michael O'Neill]], nationalist politician and [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) (died 1976).
* 25 August – [[Gabriel Hayes]], sculptor, designer of Irish coins (died 1978).
* 20 October – [[James Patrick Scully]], awarded [[George Cross]] for valour in 1941 in [[Liverpool]] in rescuing people from a bomb damaged building.
* 28 October – [[Francis Bacon (painter)|Francis Bacon]], painter (died 1992).
* 4 November – [[Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet]], cricketer, squash player and art collector (died 1982).
* 29 November – [[James Auchmuty]], historian (died 1981).
* 6 December – [[Daniel A. McGovern]], U.S. Army Air Forces photographer, documented [[atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]] (died 2005).
*;Full date unknown
** [[Jack Stanley Gibson]], surgeon and writer (died 2005).
** [[W. R. Rodgers]], poet and writer (died 1969 in Northern Ireland).

==Deaths==
* 10 January – [[John Conness]], United States Senator from California 1863–1869 (born 1821).
* 4 February – [[James Lynam Molloy]], poet, songwriter, and composer (born 1837).
*3 March – [[Bishop Richard Owens]], [[Bishop of Clogher]] 1894–1909 (born 1840).
* 19 March – [[Charles Guilfoyle Doran]], Clerk of Works at [[St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh]] (born 1835).
* 24 March – [[William Lundon]], [[Irish Parliamentary Party]] MP (born 1839).
*24 March – [[John Millington Synge]], author and playwright ([[Hodgkin's disease]]).
* 4 April – [[Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet]] (born 1833).
* 22 May – [[Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet]], [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] MP (born 1839).
* 3 June – [[Charlotte Grace O'Brien]], political and social activist, writer, and plant collector (born 1845).
* 15 July – [[George Tyrrell]], expelled [[Jesuit]] priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (born 1861).
* 1 December – [[William Joseph Corbet]], [[Irish nationalism|nationalist]] politician and MP (born 1824).

==See also==
*[[1909 in Scotland]]
*[[1909 in Wales]]

==References==
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{{Years in Ireland}}

[[Category:1909 in Ireland| ]]
[[Category:1900s in Ireland]]
[[Category:1909 by country|Ireland]]
[[Category:Years of the 20th century in Ireland]]
[[Category:1909 in the United Kingdom|Ireland]]

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