# 1907 in Ireland

Events in the year 1907 in Ireland.

## Events

* 2 January – A new system of rail cars running from Dublin Amiens Street station to Howth was introduced.
* 5 January – The first motor show under the auspices of the Irish Automobile Club opened at the Royal Dublin Society.
* 6 January – The Sunday provisions of the new Licensing Act come into operation in Dublin and four other cities. Sunday opening hours would be from 2 pm to 5 pm.
* 26 January – The first performance of J. M. Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin triggered a week of rioting.
* 4 May – The Irish International Exhibition opened in Dublin.
* 7 May – Augustine Birrell introduced the Irish Council Bill; it was rejected by a Nationalist convention on 21 May and dropped by the government on 3 June.
* 6 July – The Crown Jewels of Ireland, valued at £50,000, were stolen from a safe in Dublin Castle.
* 10–11 July – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra made a state visit to attend the Irish International Exhibition in Dublin.
* 26 July – A large rally was held in Belfast City Hall in support of the continuing Dockers and Carters strike.
* 4 September – An Irish Parliamentary Party meeting in the Mansion House, Dublin was disrupted by Sinn Féin who held a demonstration outside.
* 17 October – The Marconi transatlantic wireless telegraphy service between Galway and Canada was opened. Messages were exchanged without a hitch.
* 9 November – The Irish International Exhibition ended after six months. An estimated 2.75 million people visited it, including a large number from abroad.
* November – Irish republican Tom Clarke returned to Ireland from the United States.

## Arts and literature

* 26 January – Large sections of the audience booed the opening performance of J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre.
* 28 January – Another performance of The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre was interrupted by the audience who continued to boo, hiss and shout.
* 4 February – In a public debate at the Abbey Theatre, the poet W. B. Yeats denied trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of The Playboy of the Western World.
* May – James Joyce's poems Chamber Music were published.
* Early – Seven-year-old future author Elizabeth Bowen moved with her mother from Ireland to the south of England.
* Publication of Padraic Colum's poems Wild Earth.
* Peadar Kearney and Patrick Heeney wrote A Soldier's Song (with English lyrics); it later became Amhrán na bhFiann (in Irish), the Irish national anthem.
* Publication of County Cork-born retired Chicago chief of police Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland.

## Sport
### Association football
#### International

    16 February – England 1–0 Ireland (in Liverpool)
    23 February – Ireland 2–3 Wales (in Belfast)
    16 March – Scotland 3–0 Ireland (in Glasgow)
* Irish League
    Winners: Linfield F.C.

#### Irish Cup

    Winners: Cliftonville F.C. 0–0, 1–0 Shelbourne F.C.

### Golf

* The British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship was held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: May Hezlet).

## Births

* 21 February – Colville Deverell, cricketer and politician (died 1995).
* 1 March – Robert Malachy Burke, Christian Socialist and philanthropist (died 1998).
* 15 May – John Galvin, Fianna Fáil party Teachta Dála (TD) (died 1963).
* 1 June – Helen Megaw, crystallographer (died 2002 in Northern Ireland).
* 2 June – Dan O'Keeffe, Kerry Gaelic footballer (died 1967).
* 29 June – Paul O'Dwyer, lawyer and politician in the United States (died 1998).
* 13 July – John David Gwynn, cricketer (died 1998).
* 15 July – Seamus Murphy, sculptor (died 1975).
* 14 August – H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) (died 1989 in Northern Ireland).
* 14 September
** Janet McNeill, novelist and playwright (died 1994 in England)
** Edel Quinn, lay missionary (died 1944).
* 8 October – J. G. Devlin, actor (died 1991 in Northern Ireland).
* 28 October – John Hewitt, poet (died 1987 in Northern Ireland).
* 1 November – Bill Loughery, cricketer (died 1977 in Northern Ireland).
* 26 November – Theodore William Moody, historian (died 1984).
* 19 December – Jimmy McLarnin, boxer (died 2004 in Northern Ireland).

### Full date unknown

*   * Desmond Clarke, librarian and writer (died 1979).
*   * Maura Laverty, writer, journalist, and broadcaster (died 1966).
*   * Áine Ní Cheanainn, educationalist (died 1999)
*   * Margot Ruddock, actress, poet, and singer (died 1951).
*   * Henry Tyrell-Smith, motor cycle racer (died 1982).

## Deaths

* 16 January – Daniel John O'Donoghue, printer, labour leader, and politician in Ontario (born 1844).
* 20 January – Agnes Mary Clerke, astronomer and writer (born 1842).
* 31 January – Timothy Eaton, businessman, founded Eaton's department store in Canada (born 1834).
* 11 February – William Howard Russell, journalist (born 1821).
* 16 March – John O'Leary, Irish poet and Fenian (born 1830).
* 9 April – Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (born 1853).
* 1 May – John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist, and historian of economic thought (born 1823).
* 10 June – Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (born 1822).
* 8 July – John Horgan, politician and member of the Western Australian Legislative Council (born 1834).
* 3 August – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor (born 1848).
* 7 August – James Brenan, artist (born 1837).
* 13 August – George Charlemont, former Gaelic footballer (born 1873).
* 17 November – Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy officer, explorer in Canadian Arctic Archipelago (born 1819).
* 17 December – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences (born 1824).

### Full date unknown

*   * Robert Cain, brewer and businessman (born 1826).
*   * Denis Kearney, politician in America (born 1847).