1893 in Ireland

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See also: 1892 in Ireland, 1894 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Events

• February - Prime Minister Gladstone introduces his second Home Rule Bill to the House of Commons, 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 had taken 53 years to build.

[edit] Arts and literature

• Douglas Hyde publishes Love Songs of Connacht.
• William Butler Yeats publishes The Rose.
• Oscar Wilde stages A Woman of No Importance.

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 5 - 1 Cliftonville

• Derry Olympic becomes defunct after only one season in the Irish Football League.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• 28 December - Bishop James Donnelly, Bishop of Clogher (1865-1893) (b.1823).

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Edward Carson. A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981
2. ^ BBC Short History of Ireland