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Events
- February - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom W. E. Gladstone introduces his second Home Rule Bill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, where it is passed.[1]
- 26 April - Edward Carson is called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple[1]
- 31 July - Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill establish the Gaelic League.[2]
- 8 September - Gladstone's second Home Rule Bill is rejected by the House of Lords.[1]
- The biggest opposition to Home Rule manifests itself in Ulster, particularly amongst Protestants.
- Consecration of St. Mel's Church in County Longford takes place. The church has taken 53 years to build.
Arts and literature
- Douglas Hyde publishes Love Songs of Connacht.
- William Butler Yeats publishes The Celtic Twilight, giving a popular name to the Irish Literary Revival.[3]
- Oscar Wilde stages A Woman of No Importance.
Sport
Football
- International
- Winners: Linfield
- Winners: Linfield 5 - 1 Cliftonville
- Derry Olympic becomes defunct after only one season in the Irish Football League.
Golf
- Ormeau Golf Club in Belfast and Ballybunion Golf Club are formed.
Births
January to June
- 5 February - John Lymbrick Esmonde, soldier, Fine Gael TD (died 1958).
- 22 February - Peadar O'Donnell, Irish Republican socialist, Marxist activist and writer (died 1986).
- 4 April - Dick McKee, Irish Republican Army member in Easter Rising, shot by Crown forces (died 1920).
- 14 May - George McElroy, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force pilot during World War I, killed in action (died 1918).
- 14 June - Séamus Burke, Sinn Féin TD, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedheal and later Fine Gael (died 1967).
July to December
- 26 July - E. R. Dodds, classical scholar (died 1973).
- 27 July - Margaret Dolan, oldest woman in Ireland when she died aged 111 (died 2004).
- 10 August - Mick O'Brien, soccer player and manager (died 1940).
- 30 September - Seán MacEoin, major general, former Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1973).
- 26 October - Thomas MacGreevy, poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland (died 1967).
- 1 November - Neal Blaney, Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member (died 1948).
- 9 November - Liam Lynch, commanding general of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army during the Irish Civil War, shot and killed (died 1923).
Full date unknown
- Tomás Bairéad, journalist and author (died 1973).
- Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author (died 1962).
- Denis Rolleston Gwynn, journalist, author and professor of Modern Irish History (died 1973).
- Mick Kenny, Galway hurler (died 1959).
- Eamon Martin, one of founders of Fianna Éireann, and an Irish Volunteer who fought in the Easter Rising (died 1971).
- Nora Connolly O'Brien, political activist, daughter of James Connolly (died 1981).
- Cathal O'Shannon, politician, trade unionist and journalist (died 1969).
- Seán Russell, Irish republican and a chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (died 1940).
Deaths
- 3 March - Hugh Nelson, politician in Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia (born 1830).
- 16 April - William Davis Ardagh, lawyer, judge and politician in Canada (born 1828).
- 27 April - John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand (born 1839).
- 5 September - Mike Cleary, boxer (born 1858).
- 8 November - Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (born 1815).
- 28 December - James Donnelly, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher (born 1823).
References
- ^ a b c Stewart, A. T. Q. (1981). Edward Carson. Gill's Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
- ^ "Cultural Revival". A Short History of Ireland. BBC. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ^ Yeats' collected editions feature a section titled The Rose, which is dated 1893, but Yeats never published a book titled "The Rose".
- ^ a b c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 153. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.