1913 in Ireland - Events

Events

• 13 January - Edward Carson founds the Ulster Volunteer Force by unifying several existing loyalist militias.
• 30 January - At Westminster the House of Lords rejects the 3rd Home Rule Bill by 326 to 69.
• 7 July - The Home Rule Bill is once again carried in the House of Commons, despite attempts by Bonar Law to obstruct it.
• 26 August - Dublin Lock-out: Members of James Larkin's Irish Transport and General Workers' Union employed by the Dublin United Tramways Company begin strike action in defiance of the dismissal of trade union members by the chairman, businessman William Martin Murphy.
• 31 August ("Bloody Sunday") - Dublin Lock-out: The Dublin Metropolitan Police kill one demonstrator and injure 400 in dispersing a demonstration in Sackville Street (Dublin).
• 1 September - Protest by locked-out workers lead to serious riots in Dublin. Shops are looted and attempts made to tear up tram lines.

• 3 September - A meeting of 400 employers with William Martin Murphy pledges not to employ any persons who continue to be members of the Irish Transport & General Workers' Union.
• 7 September - A large meeting in Sackville Street asserts the right of free speech, trade union representation and demands an enquiry into police conduct.
• 17 September
  • In Newry, Edward Carson says that a Provisional Government will be established in Ulster if Home Rule is introduced.
  • In Dublin, labour unrest grows with a march 5,000 through the city.
• 27 September - 12,000 Ulster Volunteers parade at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society's show grounds at Balmoral (Belfast) in protest at the Home Rule Bill.
• 27 September - In Dublin the food ship, The Hare, arrives bringing forty tons of food raised by British trade unionists.
• 6 October - An official report on the lockout suggests that workers should be reinstated without having to give a pledge not to join the ITGWU.
• 16 October - 4,000 men and women march through Dublin in support of James Larkin and the Transport Union.
• 27 October - James Larkin of the ITGWU is sentenced to seven months in prison for seditious language.
• 1 November - Professor Eoin MacNeill's article "The North Began", suggesting formation of pro-self-government Irish Volunteers, appears in the Gaelic League newspaper An Claidheamh Soluis, at the suggestion of The O'Rahilly.
• 10 November - The Dublin Volunteer Corps enrolls over 2,000 men. They declare they will preserve the "civil and religious liberties" of Protestants outside Ulster in the event of Irish Home Rule.
• 19 November - The Irish Citizen Army is launched at a meeting of the Dublin Civic League in Dublin. The army is founded by James Connolly to protect workers in the general lockout.
• 25 November - The pro-Home Rule Irish Volunteers are formed at a meeting attended by 4,000 men in Dublin's Rotunda Rink.
• 28 November - Andrew Bonar Law addresses a huge unionist rally in the Theatre Royal in Dublin, declaring that if Home Rule is introduced Ulster will resist and will have the support of his party.