Ireland

Irish Womens Suffrage Federation is formed

The Titanic is launched in Belfast, Ireland

Titanic was launched at 12:15 pm on 31 May 1911 in the presence of Lord Pirrie, J. Pierpont Morgan, J. Bruce Ismay and 100,000 onlookers. Twenty-two tons of soap and tallow were spread on the slipway to lubricate the ship’s passage into the River Lagan. In keeping with the White Star Line’s traditional policy, the ship was not formally named or christened with champagne. The ship was towed to a fitting-out berth where, over the course of the next year, her engines, funnels and superstructure were installed and her interior was fitted out.

The hull of the world’s most famous ship, the Titanic , is launched

Maureen O'Sullivan Boyle, born in Roscommon

Birth in Portaferry, Co. Down of actor Joseph Tomelty

Joseph Tomelty (5 March 1911 – 7 June 1995) was an Irish actor, playwright, novelist, short-story writer and theatre manager. He worked in film, television, radio and on the stage, starring in Sam Thompson’s 1960 play Over the Bridge.

Robert Noonan, author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, dies

Robert Phillipe Noonan (17 April 1870 – 3 February 1911), born Robert Croker, and best known by the pen name Robert Tressell, was an Irish writer best known for his novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.

Premiere of Percy French’s play The Immigrant’s Letter

James Joyce and Eileen Joyce leave Dublin for Trieste, Italy

James Joyce, the Irish author and literary figure best known for works like “Ulysses” and “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” left for Italy in October 1907.

Birth in Dublin of Sir Francis Bacon, painter

The Engineering and Scientific Association of Ireland assures the population that flying machines will never be of any practical use