Events
- 9 January - The Lillebonne, the largest vessel ever constructed in Dublin, is successfully launched in the North Wall Yard.
- 6 March - The obligation of the Post Office in regard to letters addressed in Irish is raised in the British House of Commons. The debate arises because the GPO in Dublin returned parcels addressed in Irish by the Gaelic League.
- 29 May - Statistics for Ireland in 1904 show that nearly 37,000 people emigrated. Since 1851 almost 4 million people have left the island.
- 7 July - The Drunkenness (Ireland) Bill is debated in the British House of Commons. Irish Members of Parliament criticise the bill on the grounds that it is offensive.
- 28 November - Founding of Sinn Féin.
- Church House in Belfast is built, home to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
Read more about this topic: 1905 In Ireland
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)