1902 in Ireland

← 1901 1900 1899 1898 1897 1902 in Ireland → 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907
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See also:	1902 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1902 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1902 in Ireland.

Events

• 7 January - Waterford Corporation passes a motion to confer the freedom of the city on John Redmond.
• 8 January - The Great National Convention takes place in the Round Room of the Rotunda in Dublin. Motions are passed regarding coercion, the Irish language and evicted tenants.
• 2 April - John Redmond is awarded the freedom of the City of Dublin.
• Spring to Autumn - The Cork International Exhibition (1902) is held.
• 2 June - The centenary of the Congregation of Christian Brothers is celebrated with High Mass in the Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago.
• 22 July - Thomas Croke dies at the age of 78 at Thurles. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel since 1875, he was the first patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association and a supporter of the Gaelic League and the Land League.
• August - First part of the cliff path at The Gobbins, Islandmagee, is opened.
• Dunraven land conference starts.^[1]
• The Roman Catholic Loughrea Cathedral is completed.
• Michael McCarthy's Priests and People in Ireland is published.

Arts and literature

• 2 April - First performance of W. B. Yeats's play Cathleen Ní Houlihan in Dublin.^[2]
• The Irish Literary Theatre project ends.^[1]
• Padraic Colum's anti-enlistment play, The Saxon Shillin', is awarded a prize by Cumann na nGaedheal.
• Percy French writes the comic song Are Ye Right There Michael?
• Augusta, Lady Gregory, publishes Cuchulain of Muirthemne, a retelling of Irish mythology in English.
• Walter Osborne paints his last work, Tea in the Garden, in Dublin.

Sport

Football

• International

22 February Wales 0 - 3 Ireland (in Cardiff)^[3]

1 March Ireland 1 - 5 Scotland (in Belfast)^[3]

22 March Ireland 0 - 1 England (in Belfast)^[3]

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 5 - 0 Distillery

• Scottish Cup

Winners: 26 April Hibernian 1 - 0 Celtic (at Celtic Park, Glasgow)

Births

January to June

• 2 January - Dan Keating, Ireland's oldest man and last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence (died 2007).
• 13 January - Francis Connell, cricketer (died 1983).
• 20 January - Kevin Barry, Irish Republican Army member (executed for his part in an operation resulting in the deaths of three British soldiers 1920).
• 25 April Cormac Breslin, Fianna Fáil TD and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (died 1978).

July to December

• 20 July - Jimmy Kennedy, songwriter (died 1984).
• 21 July - William Bernard Barry, politician in the United States (died 1946 in the United States).
• 16 August - Arthur Douglas, cricketer and rugby player (died 1937).
• 4 September - Patrick Lenihan, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1970).
• 16 September - James Dillon, former leader of Fine Gael, TD and Minister (died 1986).
• 2 October - Alexander Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester, born Viscount Mandeville, British Royal Navy officer and hereditary peer (died 1977 in England).
• 16 December - Billy King, cricketer (died 1987).
• 29 December - Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford, politician, dramatist and poet (died 1961).
• December - Maurice Gerard Moynihan, civil servant and writer (died 1999).

Full date unknown

• Thekla Beere, civil servant (died 1991).
• Frank Carney, playwright and civil servant.
• Maurice Gorham, journalist and broadcasting executive (died 1975).
• Jim Hurley, veteran of the Irish War of Independence, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler (died 1965).
• Patrick MacDonogh, poet (died 1961).
• Frank Ryan, member of the Irish Republican Army, editor of An Phoblacht, leftist activist and leader of Irish volunteers on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War (died 1944).
• Francis Stuart, writer (died 2000).

Deaths

• 20 January - Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic (born 1814).
• 10 March - C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia (born 1843).
• 21 April - Ethna Carbery, writer and poet (born 1866).
• 20 July - John William Mackay, businessman in America (born 1831).
• 22 July - Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association (born 1824).
• 23 December - Lucius Gwynn, cricketer (born 1873).

Full date unknown

• John O'Hart, genealogist (born 1824).
• Edward Harrington (b. c. 1852), Member of Parliament (MP) for West Kerry 1885–1892

References