Events in the year 1904 in Ireland. Events 26 April – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra arrived at Kingstown. The royal couple attended the Punchestown Races for the day. 2 May – The King and Queen travelled to Waterford where they stayed at Lismore Castle, home of the Duke of Devonshire. Thomas Horgan of Youghal made the first known film in Ireland of this event. 4 May – The final day of the royal visit to Ireland. 2 June – The nave of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, was consecrated. 27 June – The second Fastnet Rock lighthouse was first lit. 28 June – The Danish ocean liner, the , was wrecked on Helen's Reef off Rockall with the loss of 635 lives. 24 July – St Patrick's Cathedral was consecrated in Armagh town. Construction started of Government Buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin (finishes 1922). The "Limerick Pogrom" began. The first "steamboat ladies" – female students at the women's colleges of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge – were awarded ad eundem degrees by Trinity College Dublin, at a time when their own universities refused to confer degrees upon women. The first woman, Isabel Marion Weir Johnston, began attending Trinity College Dublin. Arts and literature 22 January – Baritone Harry Plunket Greene made his first gramophone recordings. 25 February – J. M. Synge's tragedy Riders to the Sea was first performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theatre Society. 16 May – James Joyce won a prize for singing at a Feis Ceoil held at the Antient Concert Rooms in Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. 16 June – The original "Bloomsday", the day James Joyce first walked out with his future wife Nora Barnacle (whom he first met on 10 June), to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend. He set the action of his novel Ulysses (1922) on today's date. 1 September – The Leinster School of Music opened at 34 Harcourt Street, Dublin, by Samuel Myerscough. The school (which later added "Drama" to its title) became one of the examining bodies in Ireland for music and drama, moving to Griffith College, Dublin. 1 November – George Bernard Shaw's comedy about Ireland, John Bull's Other Island, opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, after W. B. Yeats rejected it for the Abbey Theatre. 27 December – The Irish National Theatre Society (Abbey Theatre) opened to the public in Dublin for