1903 in Ireland

• 3 January – The Norwegian ship Remittant was towed into quarantine in Queenstown with the entire crew suffering from beriberi.
• 3 February – The proposed canonisation of Oliver Plunkett was discussed in Rome.
• 26–27 February – "Ulysses" Storm: A windstorm passed across Ireland, uprooting 1–3,000 trees in Phoenix Park.{{cite web|title=Exceptional weather events|url=http://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/weather-events/Feb1903_storm.pdf|publisher=Met Éireann|access-date=2023-04-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522194356/http://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/weather-events/Feb1903_storm.pdf|archive-date=2012-05-22|url-status=dead}}
• 26 February – The ocean liner SS Columbus was launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
• 27 February – A meeting at the Mansion House, Dublin, enthusiastically welcomed a movement to establish Saint Patrick's Day as a national holiday.
• 8 March – Charles Gavan Duffy was buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. He was laid to rest near others who took part in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848.
• 9 March – The Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway's Letterkenny and Burtonport Extension was opened.{{cite web|work=Railscot|title=Irish Railways|url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf|accessdate=2021-07-03}}
• 17 March – In Waterford, Saint Patrick's Day was marked as a public holiday (to encourage temperance).
• 26 March – The Chief Secretary for Ireland, George Wyndham, introduced his Irish Land Bill in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
• 31 March – The Lord-Lieutenant announced that Edward VII and Queen Alexandra intended to visit Ireland within the coming year.{{cite journal|first1=Cóilín|last1=Owens|first2=How|last2=Joyce|title=July 1903: Edward VII, the Gordon Bennett Cup and the Emmet centennial|url=http://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/july-1903-edward-vii-the-gordon-bennett-cup-and-the-emmet-centennial/|journal=History Ireland|location=Dublin|issue=3|date=May–June 2011|volume=19|access-date=20 January 2014}}
• 15 May – The Chief Secretary for Ireland, George Wyndham, asked for support for his Irish Land Bill.
• 23 May – Extracts from the annual report of the British Army showed that there were 35,717 Irishmen in its service.
• 9 June – Trinity College Dublin announced following a vote that it was to award degrees to women. The first women would be admitted in 1904.
• 1 July – The Belfast and Northern Counties Railway became the Northern Counties Committee of the Midland Railway of England.
• 19–27 July – Edward VII made his first visit to Ireland as monarch, landing at Buncrana.
• 14 August – The Land Purchase (Ireland) Act 1903 was passed in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, offering special incentives to landlords to sell their entire estates.
• 5 September – Irish painter Henry Jones Thaddeus was granted permission to paint the first portrait of Pope Pius X.
• 13 November – The 2nd Battalion of The Royal Dublin Fusiliers was welcomed home after nearly 20 years of foreign service.
• ; Undated
• Independent Orange Institution was formed, as a breakaway from the Orange Institution.{{cite web|title=Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events|work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm|access-date=28 January 2010}}
• The Pigeon House generating station in Dublin started producing electricity.
• The withdrawal of the last British Royal Navy guard ship to be permanently stationed at Kingstown, the cruiser {{HMS|Melampus|1890}}, took place.{{cite journal|first=Cormac F.|last=Lowth|title=Guard-Ships at Kingstown|journal=Dun Laoghaire Journal|volume=23|year=2014|pages=10–19}}
• The Cork International Exhibition was re-opened.

• January – An Túr Gloine, the cooperative studio for stained glass, was established by Sarah Purser in Dublin.{{cite web|first=Nicola Gordon|last=Bowe|title=The Tower of Glass: An Túr Gloine and the early 20th century stained glass revival|url=http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/towerofglass/towerofglass.htm|work=Buildingconservation.com|year=2008|access-date=16 August 2012}}
• 8 October – J. M. Synge's play, In the Shadow of the Glen, was first performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin.
• 7 December – The first Irish language opera, Muirgheis, with music by Thomas O'Brien Butler and libretto by Thadgh O'Donoghue was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Dublin.
• Padraic Colum's Broken Soil was performed by W. G. Fay's Irish National Dramatic Company.{{cite book|first=W. G.|last=Fay|title=The Fays of the Abbey Theatre|location=London|publisher=Rich & Cowan|year=1935|page=114}}
• George Moore's short stories The Untilled Field were published.
• 'Æ' (George William Russell)'s The Nuts of Knowledge, lyrical poems old and new was published by Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press at Dundrum, Dublin.{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}{{cite web|url=http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/cuala/cuala.htm|title=Dun Emer & Cuala Press|publisher=University of Florida}}{{cite book|first=Liam|last=Miller|title=The Dun Emer Press|location=New York|publisher=The Typophiles|year=1974}}
• W. B. Yeats's poetry collection In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age{{cite web|url=http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/#heading9 |title=A Time-Line of Poetry in English |work=Representative Poetry Online |publisher=University of Toronto |access-date=29 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305073722/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/ |archive-date=5 March 2012 |url-status=live }} was published by his sister's Dun Emer Press; he also published his essays Ideas of Good and Evil.{{cite book|last1=Mac Liammoir|first1=Michael|first2=Eavan|last2=Boland|title=W. B. Yeats and his World|location=London|publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=1971|isbn=0-500-13033-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/wbyeatshisworld00macl/page/81 81]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/wbyeatshisworld00macl/page/81}}
• County Cork-born Chicago chief of police Francis O'Neill's collection O'Neill's Music of Ireland was published.

• ; International
• : 14 February – England 4–0 Ireland (in Wolverhampton){{cite book|last=Hayes|first=Dean|year=2006|title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts|publisher=Appletree Press|location=Belfast|pages=157–158|isbn=0-86281-874-5}}
• : 21 March – Scotland 0–2 Ireland (in Glasgow)
• : 28 March – Ireland 2–0 Wales (in Belfast)
• ; Irish League
• : Winners: Distillery F.C.
• ; Irish Cup
• : Winners: Distillery F.C. 3–1 Bohemian F.C.
• Bohemian F.C. became the first Dublin team to join the Irish Football League.
• The Oval football stadium, home of Glentoran F.C., was rebuilt, with the pitch being turned around ninety degrees.

• 2 July – The Gordon Bennett Cup race was run on Irish public roads, the first international motor race in Ireland. The winner was Camille Jenatzy.

• 15 January – Joe Stynes, Irish Republican and sportsman (died 1991).
• 19 January – Alfred Lane Beit, British politician, art collector and philanthropist, honorary Irish citizen (died 1994).
• 28 January – Kathleen Lonsdale, X-ray crystallographer (died 1971).
• 2 February – Hilton Edwards, actor, director, co–founder of Gate Theatre, born in London (died 1982).
• 5 February – William Teeling, author, traveller and UK politician (died 1975).
• 23 February – Alec Mackie, association football player (died 1984 in Northern Ireland).
• 11 March – Michael Hilliard, Fianna Fáil party Teachta Dála (TD), Cabinet minister and Member of the European Parliament (died 1982).
• 13 March – Joseph Blowick second leader of the Clann na Talmhan party, TD and Cabinet minister (died 1970).
• 5 April – Leo Rowsome, teacher, player, and maker of uilleann pipes (died 1970).
• 12 April – Paddy Collins, Cork hurler (died 1995).
• 23 May – Shelah Richards, actress, director, and producer (died 1985)
• 25 May – Ewart Milne, poet (died 1987).
• 8 June – Harry Duggan, association football player (died 1968).
• 17 July – Dinny Barry-Murphy, Cork hurler (died 1973).
• 18 July – Charles Hill, cricketer (died 1982).
• 5 August – Achey Kelly, cricketer (died 1961).
• 17 September – Frank O'Connor, short story writer and memoirist (died 1966).
• 6 October – Ernest Walton, physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics (died 1995).
• 23 October – Patrick Cogan, Independent TD (died 1977).
• 1 November – Max Adrian, actor (died 1973).
• 18 December – Harry Forsyth, cricketer (died 2004).
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• Leo Maguire, singer, songwriter and radio broadcaster (died 1985).
• Stanley Woods, motor cycle racer, with 29 Grand Prix wins and 10 Isle of Man TT wins (died 1993).

• 9 February – Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (born 1816).
• 5 April – Mary Anne Sadlier, novelist (born 1820).
• 24 April – Walter Osborne, impressionist painter (born 1859).
• 27 April – William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand (born 1819).
• 25 July – John Michael Clancy, Democratic Party United States Representative from New York (born 1837).
• 31 August – Charles O'Hea, Catholic Priest, baptised Ned Kelly and ministered to him before he was hanged in 1880 (born c. 1814).
• 12 September – Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (born 1822).
• 22 October – William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (born 1838).
• 24 October – James Adams (chaplain), recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in Afghanistan (1879) (born 1839).

• 1903 in Scotland
• 1903 in Wales

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