{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1897 }} Events from the year '''1897 in Ireland'''. ==Events== * October – Scottish evangelist William Irvine begins preaching independently, origin of the "Two by Twos" ("The Truth") Christian movement. * St Kevin's Pauper Lunatic Asylum opens in Cork. * The Irish Motor Car and Cycle Company is established.
==Arts and literature== * 26 May – Bram Stoker's novel ''Dracula'' is first published, in London. * 13 December – The third Theatre Royal opens in Dublin. * The first Feis Ceoil musical and cultural festival is organised in Dublin by Dr. Annie Patterson, Edward Martyn and Dr. George Sigerson.<ref>{{cite book|last=McGilloway|first=Ken|title=George Sigerson: Poet, Patriot Scientist and Scholar|location=Belfast|publisher=Ulster Historical Foundation|year=2011|isbn=9781903688212}}</ref> * George Sigerson's translated anthology ''Bards of the Gael and Gall''<ref>Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F. ''et al.'', ed. (1993). "Irish Poetry – Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic". In ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics''. Princeton University Press; MJF Books. p. 633.</ref> and his daughter Dora Sigerson Shorter's ''The Fairy Changeling, and Other Poems'' are published.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}</ref> * Amanda McKittrick Ros publishes ''Irene Iddesleigh.'' [[File:Diamonds are a girl's best friend (8527831550).jpg|thumb|Display in celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee on Alma Place in Coleraine]] ==Sport==
===Football=== *;International *:20 February England 6–0 Ireland (in Nottingham)<ref Name="DH">{{cite book|last=Hayes|first=Dean|year=2006|title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts|publisher=Appletree Press|location=Belfast|isbn=0-86281-874-5|page=155}}</ref> *:6 March Ireland 4–3 Wales (in Belfast)<ref name="DH"/> *:27 March Scotland 5–1 Ireland (in Glasgow)<ref name="DH"/>
*;Irish League *:Winners: Glentoran
*;Irish Cup *:Winners: Cliftonville 3–1 Sherwood Foresters
==Births== *1 February – Eddie Doyle, Kilkenny hurler (died 1948). *15 January – Mark Killilea Snr, Fianna Fáil TD, member of the Seanad (died 1970). *1 March – Robert Bruce Bowers, cricketer (died 1956). *23 March – John Lighton Synge, mathematician and physicist (died 1995). *4 April – Francis Evans, British diplomat (died 1983). *29 April – Mainie Jellett, abstract painter (died 1944). *26 May – Ernie O'Malley, prominent officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and on anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and a writer (died 1957). *10 June – Moss (Maurice) Twomey, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (died 1978). *1 July – Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence (died 1980). *18 August – Enid Starkie, literary critic and biographer (died 1970). *1 September – Andy Kennedy, footballer (died 1963). *17 September – Bob Fullam, soccer player (died 1974). *26 November – Thomas Derrig, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1956). *3 December – Kate O'Brien, novelist (died 1974). *Full date unknown – Ed Reavy, fiddle player and songwriter (died 1988).
==Deaths== *21 January – Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (born 1816). *24 January – Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, novelist (born 1855). *3 March – Garrett Byrne, Irish nationalist and MP (born 1829). *19 March – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, geographer (born 1810). *1 April – William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin (born 1828). *9 August – William R. Roberts, diplomat, Fenian Society member and United States Representative from New York (born 1830). *11 October – Charles W. Jones, lawyer and United States Senator in Florida (born 1834). *31 October – Samuel Haughton, scientific writer (born 1821). *25 November – John Coleman, United States Marine, recipient of Medal of Honor for his actions in 1871 during the Korean Expedition (born 1847). *8 December – Mary O'Connell, nurse during the American Civil War (born 1814).
==See also== *1897 in Scotland *1897 in Wales
==References== {{reflist}}
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