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| Date | | | | | 25-Jul-1903 | | Departure of their Majesties from Dublin to visit Belfast on the 27th, Londonderry on the 28th, Galway on the 30th, and Cork on the 1st August. | | | 1-Aug-1903 | | Their Majesties re-embarked on the Royal Yacht at Queenstown. The King on leaving Ireland "To My Irish People." | | | 28-Oct-1903 | | Degree of Doctor of Laws publicly conferred by the Royal University on H.R.HI. the Duke of Connaught, and that of Doctor of Music on the Duchess of Connaught. | | | 28-Oct-1903 | | The remains of the Rt.Hon. William Edward Hartpole Lecky, P.C., O.M. after cremation, deposited in the family vault at Mount Jerome Cemetery. Public funeral. | | | 26-Apr-1904 | | Their Majesties King Edward VII, and Queen Alexandra arrived at Kingstown. Having received addresses from the principal Public Bodies in Ireland, they proceeded by rail to Nass, and Punchestown races. | | | 28-Apr-1904 | | Their Majesties drove to Leinster Lawn, where the King laid the foundation stone of the new College of Science. | | | 30-Apr-1904 | May 3 | Their Majesties visited Kilkenny on April 30th and May 1st; Waterford and Lismore on May 2nd. On May 3rd they travelled from Lismore to Kingstown, where they embarked for Holyhead. | | | 5-May-1904 | | Memorial to the members of the 74th Dublin Company of the Imperial Yeomanry who fell in recent war in South Africa unveiled by H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in Ireland. The following are the names engraved on the memorial:-Hugh Talbot-Crosbie, Edward Deane- Freeman, Carl J. Greene, Samuel Spence, Ernest R McLean, Charles A. V. Bonynge, John Olliffe, R. C Brady, Charles Callis, James Carlyle, William C. Dawson, Robert Owen, Thomas Dowling, Walter D. Jeffares, Francis Knight, B. R. McElveen, Charles Mercier, Sutherland Pike, Alfred B. Smyly. | | | 21-Jul-1904 | | Arrival in Dublin of His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Vanutelli, Papal Legate, on a special mission to Ireland to represent His Holiness, Pope Pius X., at the Consecration and reopening of St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh. | | | 27-Dec-1904 | | The Irish National Theatre (The Abbey) opened | |
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