1911 in Ireland

Events

• 5 January – Protestant church leaders condemn the Ne Temere Papal decree on mixed marriages.
• 2 April – the national census is taken.
• 16 May – Cunarder strikes a rock on entering Queenstown harbour.
• 27 May – the first issue of the Irish Worker is published. The paper is the official organ of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and is edited by James Larkin.
• 31 May – the RMS Titanic's hull is launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. It is the largest ship afloat. Her sister sails for Liverpool the same day to take up transatlantic service.
• 22 June – as George V is crowned in London a Sinn Féin meeting at the Customs House in Dublin condemns Irish participation in the coronation ceremonies.
• 8-12 July – George V and Queen Mary make a 5-day royal visit to Dublin which will be the last to the city this century. On 8 July they officially open the College of Science in Merrion Square and on 10 July they visit St Patrick's College, Maynooth.
• 9 August – a statue of Charles Stewart Parnell is hoisted onto its pedestal in Sackville Street, Dublin.
• 17 August – Dublin County Council votes in favour of using Greenwich Mean Time. The councillors hear that Irish time, being 25 minutes behind Greenwich, is a great handicap for trade.
• 18 August – the Parliament Act removes the House of Lords' power regarding budgets and restricts their power over other bills to a two-year suspensive veto. This makes Irish Home Rule a possibility in the future.
• 21 August – Irish Women's Suffrage Federation founded.
• 26 August – Wexford foundry workers locked out for attempting to join the I.T.G.W.U. The lockout continues until February 1912.
• 23 September – 70,000 unionists and Orangemen march from Belfast to Craigavon House to protest against Home Rule.
• 1 October – the monument to Parnell is officially unveiled in Upper Sackville Street, Dublin.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Strike of women workers at Jacob's biscuit factory in Dublin organised by Rosie Hackett.
• :*Royal Arch Purple is formed; the organisation is separate but closely linked to the Orange Institution.
• :*Bellevue Pleasure Gardens, a public park and recreational area, is opened on the slopes of Cavehill, Belfast.

  Arts and literature

• 16 April – St. John Greer Ervine's Mixed Marriage premieres at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
• 16 December – the Imperial Copyright Act confirms the library of Trinity College, Dublin, as one of the six in the U.K. entitled to be given by legal deposit a copy of every British publication.
• The Kalem Company of New York shoots a film based on the play The Colleen Bawn on location in Ireland with Canadian Irish director Sidney Olcott.
• Publication of Patrick MacGill's Songs of a Navvy.
• Publication of Adam Lynn's Ulster Scots dialect Random Rhymes frae Cullybackey.
• Publication of W. F. Marshall's poems Ulster Sails West, including "Hi Uncle Sam!"
• Publication of Ave, the first of novelist George Moore's three-volume autobiographical Hail and Farewell in the same year that he leaves Dublin to settle in London.
• Publication of Katharine Tynan Hinkson's New Poems.

  Sport

Soccer

• ;International
• :28 January: Ireland 1–2 Wales
• :11 February: England 2–2 Ireland
• :18 March: Scotland 2–0 Ireland
• ;Irish League
• :Winners: Linfield
• ;Irish Cup
• :Winners: Shelbourne 0 – 0, 2 – 1 Bohemians
• Glenavon joins the Irish Football League, replacing Bohemians who have resigned from the League, but return next year.

  Gaelic Games

• All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1911 Winners: Cork
• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1911 Winners: Kilkenny
• Meath are declared Leinster football champions for 20 minutes, but when Kilkenny arrive late for the final, Meath agree to play the match and are beaten.

  Golf

• Cliftonville Golf Club founded in Belfast.

  Rugby

• 11 February – Ireland beats England by one try to nil at the first rugby international of the season at Lansdowne Road.

  Births

• 31 January – Eddie Byrne, actor.
• 3 February – Tom Davis, soccer player
• 4 February – Jimmy Walsh, Kilkenny hurler.
• 12 February – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Attorney-General, Chief Justice of Ireland and fifth President of Ireland.
• 28 February – Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon.
• 5 March – Joseph Tomelty, actor, novelist and playwright.
• 5 May – James Horan, Roman Catholic monsignor, conceived and created Ireland West Airport Knock.
• 17 May – Maureen O'Sullivan, actress.
• 27 July – Donal Lamont, Catholic Bishop in Rhodesia.
• 29 July – Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1940 near Dunkirk, France.
• 8 August – Billy Behan, soccer player and scout.
• 24 September – James Gill, cricketer.
• 5 October – Brian O'Nolan, also known as Myles na gCopaleen, novelist, satirist and humourist.
• 11 October – Fred Daly, golfer.
• 19 October – John de Courcy Ireland, maritime historian and political activist.
• 26 December – John 'Tull' Dunne, Gaelic footballer, coach and administrator.
• Full date unknown
• *Jimmy Kelly, soccer player.
• *Con Lehane, nationalist, member of the IRA Army Council, and Dáil representative.

  Deaths

• 3 February – Robert Tressell, writer and author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
• 1 August – Dudley Stagpoole, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 near Poutoko in Taranaki, New Zealand.
• 16 August – Patrick Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney.
• 5 September – Katherine Cecil Thurston, novelist.
• 23 September – Daniel O'Reilly, U.S. Representative from New York.