29 August – The Aero Club of Ireland held its inaugural aviation meeting at Leopardstown Racecourse.
11 September – English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine made an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea but landed some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay.[3][4]
20 October – RMS Olympic was launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. At 45,324 gross tons, she was the largest ship afloat. Her sister ship RMS Titanic was launched 16 months later.
November
Reconstruction began of the original city bridge over the River Suir in Waterford; it was opened in 1913 by John Redmond.[5]
Lilian Bland built and flew her own biplaneglider, the first built in Ireland, from Carnmoney Hill; an engine was fitted soon afterwards[7] and she made her first powered flight in late August.
Arts and literatureedit
13 January – The play Deirdre of the Sorrows by John Millington Synge (died 1909) was performed for the first time at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
5 May – Padraic Colum's play Thomas Muskerry premiered at the Abbey Theatre.
7 May – Annie Horniman withdrew financial support from the Abbey Theatre in protest at its refusal to close on the death of King Edward VII the previous day.