1903 in Ireland - Events

Events

• 3 January - The Norwegian ship Remittant is towed into quarantine in Queenstown with the entire crew suffering from beriberi.
• 3 February - The proposed canonisation of Oliver Plunkett is discussed in Rome.
• 27 February - A meeting at the Mansion House, Dublin, enthusiastically welcomes a movement to establish Saint Patrick's Day as a national holiday.
• 8 March - Charles Gavan Duffy is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. He is laid to rest near others who took part in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848.
• 17 March - In Waterford, Saint Patrick's Day is marked as a public holiday (to encourage temperance).
• 26 March - Chief Secretary George Wyndham introduces the Irish Land Bill in the British House of Commons.
• 31 March - The Lord-Lieutenant announces that King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra intend to visit Ireland within the coming year.
• 15 May - The Chief Secretary for Ireland, George Wyndham, asks for support for his Irish Land Bill.
• 23 May - Extracts from the annual report of the British Army shows that there are 35,717 Irishmen in its service.
• 9 June - University of Dublin announces that it is to award degrees to women following a vote.
• 1 July - The Belfast and Northern Counties Railway becomes the Northern Counties Committee of the Midland Railway (of England).
• 14 August - The Wyndham Land Act is passed in the British House of Commons, offering special incentives to landlords to sell their entire estates.
• 5 September - Irish painter Henry Jones Thaddeus is granted permission to paint the first portrait of Pope Pius X.
• 13 November - The 2nd Battalion of The Royal Dublin Fusiliers is welcomed home after nearly 20 years of foreign service.
• 22 December - The well-known Irish optician, Patrick Cahill, who had the sole privilege of supplying the late Pope Leo XIII with spectacles, is to supply the present pontiff, Pope Pius X.