1917 in Ireland
overview of Ireland-related events during the year of 1917
Events from the year 1917 in Ireland.
Events
25 January – Armed merchantman SS Laurentic (1908) was sunk by mines off Lough Swilly; 354 were killed of 475 aboard.
3 February – Count George Noble Plunkett, father of Joseph Mary Plunkett, won the North Roscommon by-election on an abstentionist Sinn Féin platform.
7 February – The Atlantic liner SS California (1907) was sunk by Imperial German Navy U-boat U-85 38 nmi (70 km) southwest of Fastnet Rock; 41 were killed.
25 February – The RMS Laconia (1911) was sunk by U-50 6 nmi (11 km) northwest of Fastnet Rock; twelve were killed.
7 March – Prime Minister David Lloyd George announced that Britain was ready to confer self-government to the parts of Ireland that wanted it. The north-eastern part would not be "coerced".
12 March – In the British House of Commons, J. P. Farrell proposed that Ireland be excluded from the operation of the National Services Act.
17 March – Booth Line armed merchant liner SS Antony inward bound from South America was torpedoed and sunk by UC-48 19 nmi (35 km) west of Coningbeg lightship; 55 were killed.
20 March – A motion to reduce the salary of the British prime minister by £100 was introduced in the British House of Commons as a protest against the refusal to publish the proceedings of the 1916 Easter Rising courts martial.
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