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Events from the year 1914 in Ireland. ==Events== *17 January - Edward Carson inspects a parade of the East Belfast Regiment of the Ulster Volunteers. *20 February - The Fethard-on-Sea life-boat capsizes on service off the County Wexford coast: nine crew are lost. *26 February - HMHS ''Britannic'', designed as the third and largest , is launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyards in Belfast. *1 March - Three outbreaks of foot and mouth disease are confirmed in County Cork. *9 March - The British Prime Minister proposes to allow the Ulster counties to hold a vote on whether or not to join a Home Rule parliament in Dublin. *20 March - Curragh incident: British Army officers stationed at the Curragh Camp resign their commissions rather than be ordered to resist action by Unionist Ulster Volunteers if the Home Rule Bill is passed. The government backs down and they are reinstated. *2 April - Cumann na mBan, the Irish republican women's paramilitary organisation, is formed in Dublin as an auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers.〔Cumann na mBan manifesto (1914), in Bourke (ed.), ''FDA'', vol V, p.104.〕 *6 April - The second reading of the Home Rule Bill is carried in Westminster. *24–25 April - Larne Gun Running: 35,000 rifles and over 3 million rounds of ammunition from Germany are landed at Larne, Bangor and Donaghadee for the Ulster Volunteers and quickly distributed around Ulster by motor transport.〔 *25 May - The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Irish Home Rule Bill. *23 June–14 July - The Government of Ireland Bill passes through the House of Lords. It allows Ulster counties to vote on whether or not they want to come under Dublin's jurisdiction. The wishes of Fermanagh and Tyrone are eventually ignored. *10 July - The Provisional Government of Ulster meets for the first time in the Ulster Hall. It vows to keep Ulster in trust for the King and the British constitution. *21 July - A conference (called on 19 July) is opened at Buckingham Palace by the King. It is hoped that unionists and nationalists attending will break the impasse over Home Rule. *24 July - The Buckingham Palace conference ends in failure. Nationalists and Unionists present cannot agree in principle or detail. *26 July - Howth gun-running: Erskine Childers and his wife Molly sail into Howth in his yacht ''Asgard'' and land 2,500 guns for the Irish Volunteers. Troops returning to Dublin, having been called out to assist police in attempting to prevent the Volunteers from moving the arms to the city, fire on a crowd of protestors at Bachelors Walk, killing three; a fourth man dies later from bayonet wounds. *4 August - World War I: Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the German Empire. *September - Ulster Division formed as a division of the British New Army from Ulster Volunteers. *18 September - The Government of Ireland Act receives Royal Assent (although George V has contemplated refusing it) but is postponed (as projected on 30 July) for the duration of World War I〔 by the simultaneous Suspensory Act and in practice never comes into effect in its original form. *20 September - In a speech at Woodenbridge, County Wicklow, John Redmond calls on members of the Irish Volunteers to go "wherever the firing line extends". The majority do so, fighting in the 10th and 16th (Irish) Division alongside their volunteer counterparts from the 36th (Ulster) Division; the rump Irish Volunteers split off on 24 September.〔 *18 October - The British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet takes shelter in Lough Swilly while Scapa Flow is secured against submarine attack.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://historyhubulster.co.uk/royal-navy-world-war-i/ )〕 *27 October - World War I: Royal Navy super-dreadnought battleship HMS ''Audacious'' (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser ''Berlin''. *5 December - The Irish Volunteers appoint a headquarters staff, with Eoin MacNeill as chief of staff. *Welsh evangelist George Jeffreys establishes his first church in Belfast, predecessor of the Elim Pentecostal Church. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1914 in Ireland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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