Events in the year 1910 in Ireland. Events 8 January – Sinéad Flanagan married future Irish president Éamon de Valera in Dublin. 21 February – Irish Unionist members of the Westminster Parliament elected Sir Edward Carson as party leader, replacing Walter Long. 23 February – St Patrick's College, Maynooth, became a recognised college of the National University of Ireland. May – The Irish Countrywomen's Association was founded, as the Society of the United Irishwomen, by a group of educated and largely Protestant women in Bree, County Wexford. June – Bridget Dowling eloped to London with Alois Hitler, Jr., a kitchen porter at the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, and half-brother to Adolf. July – Irish republican and socialist leader James Connolly returned to Ireland from the United States. August – The first passenger flight in Ulster: Harry Ferguson piloted Miss Rita Marr. 29 August – The Aero Club of Ireland held its inaugural aviation meeting at Leopardstown Racecourse. 11 September – English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine made an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea but landed some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay. 20 October – was launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. At 45,324 gross tons, she was the largest ship afloat. Her sister ship was launched 16 months later. November Reconstruction began of the original city bridge over the River Suir in Waterford; it was opened in 1913 by John Redmond. The Irish Republican Brotherhood monthly newspaper Irish Freedom began publication in Dublin. 3 December – Sir Edward Carson and James Campbell were re-elected unopposed as Unionist Members of Parliament for Trinity College Dublin. The Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland was created by merger of the Presbytery of Antrim and Remonstrant Synod of Ulster. Lilian Bland built and flew her own biplane glider, the first built in Ireland, from Carnmoney Hill; an engine was fitted soon afterwards and she made her first powered flight in late August. Arts and literature 13 January – The play Deirdre of the Sorrows by John Millington Synge (died 1909) was performed for the first time at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. 5 May – Padraic Colum's play Thomas Muskerry premiered at the Abbey Theatre. 7 May – Annie Horniman withdrew financial support from the Abbey Theatre in protest at its refusal to close on the death of King Edward VII the previous day. August –