premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. 16 December – The Imperial Copyright Act (coming into effect in 1912) confirmed the library of Trinity College Dublin as one of the six in the UK entitled to be given by legal deposit a copy of every British publication. The Kalem Company of New York shot a film based on the play The Colleen Bawn on location in Ireland with Canadian Irish director Sidney Olcott. (Another version was shot this year in Australia.) Patrick MacGill's Songs of a Navvy was published. Adam Lynn's Ulster Scots dialect Random Rhymes frae Cullybackey was published. W. F. Marshall's poems Ulster Sails West, including "Hi Uncle Sam!", was published. The first volume, Ave, of novelist George Moore's three-volume autobiographical Hail and Farewell was published in the same year that he left Dublin to settle in London. Katharine Tynan Hinkson's New Poems was published. Sport Association football International 28 January – Ireland 1–2 Wales (in Belfast) 11 February – England 2–2 Ireland (in Derby) 18 March – Scotland 2–0 Ireland (in Glasgow) Irish League Winners: Linfield F.C. Irish Cup Winners: Shelbourne F.C. 0 – 0, 2 – 1 Bohemian F.C. Glenavon F.C. joined the Irish Football League, replacing Bohemian F.C. who had resigned from the League, but returned next year. Gaelic Games All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1911 Winners: Cork All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1911 Winners: Kilkenny Meath were declared Leinster football champions for 20 minutes, but when Kilkenny arrived late for the final, Meath agreed to play the match and were beaten. Golf Cliftonville Golf Club was founded in Belfast. Rugby 11 February – Ireland beat England by one try to nil at the first Rugby Union international of the season at Lansdowne Road. Births 31 January – Eddie Byrne, actor (died 1981). 3 February – Tom Davis, association football player (died 1987). 4 February – Jimmy Walsh, Kilkenny hurler (died 1977). 12 February – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Attorney-General, Chief Justice of Ireland and fifth President of Ireland (died 1978). 28 February – Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon (died 1993). 5 March – Joseph Tomelty, actor, novelist, and playwright (died 1995). 5 May – James Horan, Roman Catholic monsignor, conceived and created Ireland West Airport Knock (died 1986). 17 May – Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (died 1998). 27 July – Donal Lamont, Catholic Bishop in Rhodesia (died 2003). 29 July – Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews, soldier, recipient of the Victoria