Events in the year 1900 in Ireland. Events 16 January – Three lion cubs reared by an Irish red setter went on view at Dublin Zoo. 17 January – The different sections of the Nationalist Party met in the Dublin Mansion House's Oak Room to promote national unity. 6 February – The Irish National League and Irish National Federation re-united within the Irish Parliamentary Party, with John Redmond elected as compromise chairman. 28 February – Unofficial figures showed that the Royal Dublin Fusiliers suffered the most in the Second Boer War. 12 March – The 45th Company of the Imperial Yeomanry left Dublin for service in South Africa. 17 March – In celebration of Saint Patrick's Day, the Lord Lieutenant (Earl Cadogan), accompanied by his staff, reviewed a military display in the yard of Dublin Castle, followed by dinner and a ball in Saint Patrick's Hall that evening. 1 April – The Irish Guards regiment of the British Army was formed by order of Queen Victoria to honour the Irish troops fighting in the Boer War for the British Empire. 4 April – Queen Victoria arrived at Kingstown and travelled to Dublin where she was greeted by the Lord Mayor and members of the Corporation. 7 April – 52,000 children greeted Queen Victoria at the Phoenix Park in Dublin. 23 April – At a meeting in Loughrea, County Galway, Douglas Hyde complained of the rapid anglicisation of the country and the loss of the Irish language. 11 May – Edward Carson became Solicitor General for England and Wales and was knighted. 13 May – The rift in the Irish Parliamentary Party was healed as John Dillon and John Redmond shared a platform for the first time in ten years. 5 July – The British War Office issued a list of Irish prisoners of the Boers from the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers. It named 473 men from eight companies. 31 December – Ceremonies all over the country marked the closing of the 19th century and the dawning of the 20th. Richard J. Ussher and Robert Warren published The Birds of Ireland in London. Arts and literature The Irish Literary Theatre staged three plays at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin with an English company: Edward Martyn's Maeve; Alice Milligan's The Last Feast of the Fianna; and George Moore's satirical The Bending of the Bough: a comedy in five acts (an adaptation of