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Events in the year '''1900 in Ireland'''.
==Events== * 16 January – Three lion cubs reared by an Irish red setter went on view at Dublin Zoo. * 17 January – The different sections of the Nationalist Party met in the Dublin Mansion House's Oak Room to promote national unity. * 6 February – The Irish National League and Irish National Federation re-united within the Irish Parliamentary Party, with John Redmond elected as compromise chairman. * 28 February – Unofficial figures showed that the Royal Dublin Fusiliers suffered the most in the Second Boer War. * 12 March – The 45th Company of the Imperial Yeomanry left Dublin for service in South Africa. * 17 March – In celebration of Saint Patrick's Day, the Lord Lieutenant (Earl Cadogan), accompanied by his staff, reviewed a military display in the yard of Dublin Castle, followed by dinner and a ball in Saint Patrick's Hall that evening. * 1 April – The Irish Guards regiment of the British Army was formed by order of Queen Victoria to honour the Irish troops fighting in the Boer War for the British Empire.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Military History of Ireland|last1=Bartlett|first1=Thomas|last2=Jeffery|first2=Keith|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1997|isbn=0-521-62989-6|page=380|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MPZiWhhAmXAC&pg=PA380|access-date=2010-11-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishguards.org.uk/pages/history/index.html |publisher=Irish Guards |title=103 Years of the Irish Guards |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151108021721/http://www.irishguards.org.uk/pages/history/index.html |archive-date=8 November 2015 }}</ref> thumb|upright|Queen Victoria in Dublin, 1900 * 4 April – Queen Victoria arrived at Kingstown and travelled to Dublin where she was greeted by the Lord Mayor and members of the corporation. * 7 April – 52,000 children greeted Queen Victoria at the Phoenix Park in Dublin. * 23 April – At a meeting in Loughrea, County Galway, Douglas Hyde complained of the rapid anglicisation of the country and the loss of the Irish language. * 11 May – Edward Carson became Solicitor General for England and Wales and was knighted.<ref>{{cite book|title=Edward Carson|first=A. T. Q.|last=Stewart|series=Gill's Irish Lives|publisher=Gill & Macmillan|location=Dublin|year=1981|isbn=0-7171-1075-3}}</ref> * 13 May – The rift in the Irish Parliamentary Party was healed as John Dillon and John Redmond shared a platform for the first time in ten years. * 5 July – The British War Office issued a list of Irish prisoners of the Boers from the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers. It named 473 men from eight companies. * 31 December – Ceremonies all over the country marked the closing of the 19th century and the dawning of the 20th.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} * Richard J. Ussher and Robert Warren published ''The Birds of Ireland'' in London.<ref>{{cite web|title=Richard J. Ussher and "The Birds of Ireland"|url=http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography/flora-fauna/richard-j.-ussher-and-the/|work=Ask about Ireland|access-date=2012-10-04}}</ref>
==Arts and literature== * The Irish Literary Theatre staged three plays at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin with an English company: Edward Martyn's ''Maeve''; Alice Milligan's ''The Last Feast of the Fianna''; and George Moore's satirical ''The Bending of the Bough: a comedy in five acts'' (an adaptation of his cousin Martyn's ''The Tale of a Town''). * 'Moira O'Neill' published ''Songs of the Glens of Antrim''.
==Sport== <!--These are description lists; please see Help:List before changing-->
===Association football=== *; International *: 24 February Wales 2–0 Ireland (in Llandudno)<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=156}}</ref> *: 3 March Ireland 0–2 Scotland (in Belfast)<ref name="DH"/> *: 17 March Ireland 0–2 England (in Dublin: the first International match played here)<ref name="DH"/> *; Irish League *: Winners: Belfast Celtic *; Irish Cup *: Winners: Cliftonville 2–1 Bohemians * Derry Celtic was founded and joined the Irish Football League.
==Births== * 10 January – Harry Kernoff, artist (died 1974) * 19 January – Frank Devlin, badminton player (died 1988) * January – Michael Donnellan, founder of the Clann na Talmhan party and TD (died 1964) * 4 February – Robert Edgeworth-Johnstone, chemical engineer (died 1994 in France) * 16 February – John Stewart Collis, writer and pioneer ecologist (died 1984) and his twin Robert Collis, physician and writer (died 1975) * 22 February – Seán Ó Faoláin, short story writer (died 1991) * 27 February – James Ennis, cricketer (died 1976) * 1 March – Nano Reid, painter (died 1981) * 6 March – Mark Deering, Fine Gael party TD (died 1972) * 25 May – John Hunt, expert on mediaeval art (died 1976) * 10 July – Paul Vincent Carroll, dramatist (died 1968) * 17 July – Paddy Smith, Fianna Fáil party TD and longest-serving member of Dáil Éireann (54 years) (died 1982) * 22 July – Michael Davern, Fianna Fáil TD for Tipperary South 1948–1965 (died 1973) * 20 August – Seosamh Mac Grianna, writer (died 1990) * 26 August – Eudie Coughlan, Cork hurler (died 1987) * 30 August – Martin King, Galway hurler (died 1969) * 2 October – Hubert Butler, writer and historian (died 1991) * 18 October – Sarah Makem, traditional singer (died 1983) * 23 October ** Paddy Ahern, Cork hurler (died 1971) ** Hubert Butler, scholar, essayist and humanitarian (died 1991) * 27 October – Peter Kerley, radiologist (died 1979) * October – Frank Ryan, tenor (died 1965) * 2 November – William Norton, Labour party leader, TD and Cabinet minister (died 1963) * 19 November – Pamela Hinkson, writer (died 1982) * 4 December – Tom Farquharson, association football player (died 1970) * 23 December – Noel Purcell, actor (died 1985)<ref>{{cite web |title=Purcell, Noel {{!}} Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/purcell-noel-a7523 |website=www.dib.ie |access-date=12 November 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * Full date unknown – John Doherty, fiddle player (died 1980)
==Deaths== [[File:Oscar Wilde by Sarony 1882 01.jpg|thumb|186x186px|Oscar Wilde]] [[File:Sir Frederic William Burton by Henry Tanworth Wells.jpg|thumb|Sir Frederic William Burton|alt=Sir Frederic William Burton by Henry Tanworth Wells|158x158px]] * 19 January – William Larminie, poet and folklorist (born 1849) * 23 January – Abraham Boulger, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1835) * 23 January – James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (born 1822) * 7 March – Thomas Preston, scientist (born 1860) * 16 March – Frederick William Burton, painter (born 1816) * 22 March – Thomas Murphy, recipient of the Victoria Cross for bravery at sea in saving life in a storm off the Andaman Islands in 1867 (born 1839) * 26 April – John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada (born 1816) * 2 July – Thomas Farrell, sculptor (born 1827) * 12 November – Marcus Daly, businessman in America (born 1841) * 30 November – Oscar Wilde, playwright, novelist and poet, died in France (born 1854)<ref>{{cite web |title=Oscar Wilde |url=https://www.bl.uk/people/oscar-wilde |website=www.bl.uk |access-date=12 November 2022}}</ref> * 14 December – Paddy Ryan, boxer (born 1851) * Full date unknown – Thomas Workman, entomologist and arachnologist (born 1843)
==See also== *1900 in Scotland *1900 in Wales
==References== {{reflist}}
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