1897 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1897 in Ireland.

Events

• 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.
• George Sigerson's translated anthology Bards of the Gael and Gall and his daughter Dora Sigerson Shorter's The Fairy Changeling, and Other Poems are published.
• Amanda McKittrick Ros publishes Irene Iddesleigh.

Sport

Football

• International

20 February England 6 - 0 Ireland (in Nottingham)

6 March Ireland 4 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)

27 March Scotland 5 - 1 Ireland (in Glasgow)

• Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

• Irish Cup

Winners: Cliftonville 3 - 1 Sherwood Foresters

Births

• 1 March - Robert Bowers, cricketer (died 1956).
• 23 March - John Lighton Synge, mathematician and physicist (died 1995).
• 4 April - Francis Evans, British diplomat (died 1983).
• 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).
• 26 November - Thomas Derrig, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1956).
• 3 December - Kate O'Brien, novelist (died 1974).

Full date unknown

• Eddie Doyle, Kilkenny hurler (died 1948).
• Bob Fullam, soccer player (died 1974).
• Mainie Jellett, painter (died 1944).
• Maurice Moore, Irish republican who fought in the Irish War of Independence (executed 1921).
• Seán Óg Murphy, Cork hurler, Gaelic Athletic Association administrator (died 1965).
• 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).
• 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).

Full date unknown

• William R. Roberts, diplomat, Fenian Society member and United States Representative from New York (born 1830).