since martial law was proclaimed. 26 July – the date of 3 August is set as the execution date of Roger Casement. 3 August – Roger Casement is hanged at Pentonville Prison for high treason. 19 August – The Irish Times in Dublin issues a 264-page handbook detailing the events of the Easter Rising; a 2nd edition is published by the end of the year. 1 October – time in Ireland: Dublin Mean Time (25 minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time) is made the same as British time from 2:00 am today under terms of the Time (Ireland) Act, 1916. 29 October – John Redmond demands the abolition of martial law, the release of suspected persons, and that Irish prisoners be treated as political prisoners. 3 November – railway steamer and coalship SS Retriever collide and sink in Carlingford Lough, County Down, with the loss of 94 lives. 5 November – Honan Chapel, Cork, a product of the Irish Arts and Crafts movement, is dedicated. 18 November – Battle of the Somme ends after 141 days; stopped by foul weather and with thousands of Irish casualties. 21 December – in the British House of Commons, it is announced that all Irish prisoners are to be released. 25 December – the last group of Irish prisoners, 460 men from Reading Gaol, arrive in Dublin. Seán T. O'Kelly and Arthur Griffith are among those released. Arts and literature 2 April – W. B. Yeats's play At the Hawk's Well is first performed, privately in London. 7 August – there is a large audience at the Bohemian Theatre in Dublin for the first screening of the Film Company of Ireland's first film O'Neill of the Glen. September – W. B. Yeats' poem Easter 1916 is written. 13 December – Lennox Robinson's play The Whiteheaded Boy is premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. 29 December – James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is first published complete in book form in New York. Daniel Corkery's short stories A Munster Twilight are published. George Noble Plunkett is dismissed from his post as curator of the National Museum of Ireland and deported to Oxford. Sport Soccer Irish League Winners: Linfield Irish Cup Winners: Linfield 1–1, 1–0 Glentoran Gaelic Games Senior Football Championship Winners: Wexford Wexford 3–4 : 1–2 Mayo Senior Hurling Championship Winners: Tipperary Tipperary (Boherlahan) 5–4 : 3–2 Kilkenny (Tullaroan)