Kiltimagh Cavan GAA Club is formed. The Limerick Commercials win the first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship defeating the Dundalk Young Irelands. April 1 – The first All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship is held in Birr, County Offaly between Galway and Tipperary. December 27 – The first Cavan GAA County Convention is held at McGoldricks Hotel in Ballyjamesduff. Births 8 March – Patrick O'Connell, soccer player and manager (died 1959). 27 April – Harry Boland, Irish Volunteer in Easter Rising, Sinn Féin MP (shot by members of the Free State National Army 1922). 1 May – Alan Cunningham, soldier noted for victories in the East African Campaign during World War II (died 1983). 4 May – Ernest Deane, military doctor and Ireland rugby player (killed in action during World War I 1915). 6 May – Michael Browne, Master General of the Dominicans, Cardinal (died 1971). 7 May – Benjamin Glazer, Academy Award-winning screen writer, producer and director (died 1956). 18 May – Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven, peer (died 1965). 24 May – Edward Mannock, First World War flying ace and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (killed in action 1918). 19 August – Francis Ledwidge, poet (killed in action during World War I 1917). 27 August – Carmel Snow, journalist and editor of the American edition of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958 (died 1961). 8 October – Padraig O'Keeffe, fiddle player (died 1963). 13 October – Tommy Henderson, Ulster independent Unionist politician (died 1970). 6 November – Edward McLysaght, genealogist and writer (died 1986). 11 November – Canon John M. Hayes, priest and Muintir na Tíre founder. 18 November – Joseph Brennan, civil servant and Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (died 1963). 21 November – Joseph Mary Plunkett, nationalist, poet, journalist and a leader of the Easter Rising (executed 1916). 21 December – J. J. "Ginger" O'Connell, officer in the Irish Volunteers and Irish Defence Forces (died 1944). Deaths 18 January – Martin Haverty, journalist and historian (born 1809). 17 February – William Dowling, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1825). 16 April – John McCaul, educator, theologian, and second president of the University of Toronto (born 1807). 30 April – Edward Hardman, geologist (born 1845). 25 August William Barber, businessman and politician in Ontario (born 1808). Matthew Cooke, economic entomologist in California (born 1829). 15 September – Richard