1900 in Ireland - Events

Events

• 16 January — Three lion cubs reared by an Irish red setter go on view at Dublin Zoo.
• 17 January — The different sections of the Nationalist Party meet in the Dublin Mansion House's Oak Room to promote national unity.
• 28 February — Unofficial figures show that the Dublin Fusiliers suffered the most in the Second Boer War.
• 12 March — The 45th Company of the Imperial Yeomanry leave Dublin for service in South Africa.
• 17 March — In celebration of Saint Patrick's Day, the Lord Lieutenant (Earl Cadogan), accompanied by his staff, reviews 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 is formed by order of Queen Victoria to honour the Irish troops fighting in the Boer War for the British Empire.
• 4 April — Queen Victoria arrives at Kingstown and travels to Dublin where she is greeted by the Lord Mayor and members of the Corporation.
• 7 April — 52,000 children greet Queen Victoria at the Phoenix Park in Dublin.
• 23 April — At a meeting in Loughrea, Douglas Hyde complains of the rapid Anglicisation of the country and the loss of the Irish language.
• 11 May — Edward Carson becomes Solicitor General for England and Wales and is knighted.
• 13 May — The rift in the Irish Parliamentary Party is healed as John Dillon and John Redmond share a platform for the first time in ten years.
• 5 July — The British War Office issues a list of Irish prisoners from the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers. It names 473 men from eight companies.
• 30 November — Oscar Wilde, dramatist and wit, dies in poverty in Paris aged 46.
• 31 December — Ceremonies all over the country mark the closing of the 19th century and the dawning of the 20th.
• Richard J. Ussher and Robert Warren publish The Birds of Ireland (in London).