1910 in Ireland

• 8 January – Sinéad Flanagan married future Irish president Éamon de Valera in Dublin.
• 21 February – Irish Unionist members of the Westminster Parliament elected Sir Edward Carson as party leader, replacing Walter Long.
• 23 February – St Patrick's College, Maynooth, became a recognised college of the National University of Ireland.
• May – The Irish Countrywomen's Association was founded, as the Society of the United Irishwomen, by a group of educated and largely Protestant women in Bree, County Wexford.{{cite web|title=The Beginnings|url=http://www.ica.ie/about-us/History.43.1.aspx#Beginnings|publisher=Irish Countrywomen's Association|location=Dublin|year=2010|access-date=17 November 2015|archive-date=18 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118120638/http://www.ica.ie/about-us/History.43.1.aspx#Beginnings|url-status=dead}}
• June – Bridget Dowling eloped to London with Alois Hitler, Jr., a kitchen porter at the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, and half-brother to Adolf.
• July – Irish republican and socialist leader James Connolly returned to Ireland from the United States.
• August – The first passenger flight in Ulster: Harry Ferguson piloted Miss Rita Marr.{{cite web|title=Airport History|url=http://www.belfastcityairport.com/About-Us/Airport-Development-and-Planning/facts-and-figures.aspx|publisher=George Best Belfast City Airport|access-date=4 April 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012191943/http://belfastcityairport.com/About-Us/Airport-Development-and-Planning/facts-and-figures.aspx|archive-date=12 October 2011}}
• 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.{{cite news|title=Loraine's Daring Flight|newspaper=The Irish Times|location=Dublin|date=12 September 1910|page=7}}{{cite journal|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%200751.html|title=Mr Loraine's Irish Channel Flight|journal=Flight|date=17 September 1910}}
• 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.{{cite web|title=Redmond Bridge|work=Ask about Ireland|url=http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography/transport/waterford-bridges-1/redmond-bridge/|access-date=17 November 2015}}
• The Irish Republican Brotherhood monthly newspaper Irish Freedom began publication in Dublin.
• 3 December – Sir Edward Carson and James Campbell were re-elected unopposed as Unionist Members of Parliament for Trinity College Dublin.
• The Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland was created by merger of the Presbytery of Antrim and Remonstrant Synod of Ulster.Encyclopædia Britannica 1926.
• Lilian Bland built and flew her own biplane glider, the first built in Ireland, from Carnmoney Hill; an engine was fitted soon afterwards{{cite journal|first=Claire|last=O'Connell|title=Flying in the Face of Convention|journal=Engineers Journal|location=Ireland|volume=63|year=2009|pages=81–2}} and she made her first powered flight in late August.

• 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.
• August – The Kalem Company of New York began shooting the first of several films partly on location in Ireland, A Lad from Old Ireland, with a filming location around Beaufort, County Kerry, with Canadian Irish director Sidney Olcott. This was the first production by an American film studio to be shot outside the United States.
• September – Lord Dunsany's short story collection A Dreamer's Tales was published.
• 3 November – The oldest céilí band in Ireland, The Kilfenora Céilí Band was founded in Kilfenora, County Clare.{{cite web|title=Timeline|url=http://www.kilfenoraceiliband.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=54|publisher=The Kilfenora Céilí Band|access-date=20 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320231535/http://www.kilfenoraceiliband.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=54|archive-date=20 March 2012|url-status=dead}}
• The Cork Public Museum opened.
• Terence MacSwiney's first play, The Last Warriors of Coole, was produced.
• Ella Young's first book of stories, Celtic Wonder Tales, was published with illustrations by Maud Gonne.

• ; International
• 12 February Ireland 1–1 England (in Belfast){{cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=160–161|isbn=0-86281-874-5}}
• 19 March Ireland 1–0 Scotland (in Belfast)
• 11 April Wales 4–1 Ireland (in Wrexham)

• ; Irish League
• Winners: Cliftonville F.C.

• ; Irish Cup
• Winners: Distillery F.C. 1–0 Cliftonville F.C.

• 1 January – Charles Billingsley, cricketer (died 1951).{{cite web |title=CW Billingsley |url=https://www.cricketeurope.com/IRISHCRICKETHISTORY/INTERNATIONAL/PLAYERS/398/index.shtml |website=www.cricketeurope.com |access-date=23 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723152710/https://www.cricketeurope.com/IRISHCRICKETHISTORY/INTERNATIONAL/PLAYERS/398/index.shtml |archive-date=23 July 2018 |url-status=dead }}
• 2 January – Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin, politician (died 1991).
• 6 January – James "Lugs" Branigan, police detective and boxer (died 1986).
• 16 January – William Bedell Stanford, classical scholar and senator (died 1984).
• 29 January – Colin Middleton, artist (died 1983).
• 10 April – Fintan Coogan Snr, Fine Gael party Teachta Dála (TD) (died 1984).
• 13 April – Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist (died 1992).
• 9 May – Barbara Woodhouse, dog trainer (died 1988).
• 20 May – Johnny Callanan, Fianna Fáil party TD (died 1982).
• 5 June – Ham Lambert, cricketer and rugby player (died 2006).
• 12 June – Bill Naughton, playwright and author (died 1992).
• 24 June – Margaret Kelly, dancer (died 2004).
• 27 June – Nicholas Mansergh, historian (died 1991).
• 1 July – Dan Spring, Gaelic footballer, trade unionist and Labour Party TD (died 1988).
• 4 July – George Otto Simms, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Archbishop of Armagh (died 1991).
• 1 August – Cathal Gannon, harpsichord maker and fortepiano restorer (died 1999).
• 8 August – Bobby Kirk, ice hockey player (died 1970).
• 14 August – Eddie Ingram, cricketer (died 1973).
• 24 September – Robert Alexander, rugby and cricket player (died 1943).
• 1 November – Michael Lyons, Fine Gael party TD and Senator (died 1991).
• 15 November – Geoffrey Toone, actor (died 2005).
• 19 November – Manliff Barrington, motorcycle racer (died 1999).
• 26 November – Cyril Cusack, actor (died 1993).
• 29 November – Máirtín Ó Direáin, poet (died 1988).
• 10 December – Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director of The Irish Press, Fianna Fáil party TD representing Dublin North-West (died 1982).
• 22 December – James Boucher, cricketer (died 1995).
• 26 December – Stephen Coughlan, Labour Party TD and Mayor of Limerick (died 1994).
• ; Full date unknown
• Peter Kavanagh, association football player (died 1993).
• Betty Miller, writer (died 1965).
• Séamus Ó Néill, writer (died 1981).

• 17 February – St. Clair Augustine Mulholland, American Civil War officer (born 1839).
• 6 May – King Edward VII (born 1841).
• 30 August – Hedges Eyre Chatterton, Conservative Party Member of Parliament and Vice-Chancellor of Ireland (born 1819).
• 30 August – George Throssell, second Premier of Western Australia (born 1840).

• 1910 in Scotland
• 1910 in Wales

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