1893 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Golf 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 6 References

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.

Arts and literature

• Douglas Hyde publishes Love Songs of Connacht.
• William Butler Yeats publishes The Celtic Twilight. Yeats' collected editions feature a section titled The Rose, which is dated 1893, but Yeats never published a book titled "The Rose".
• Oscar Wilde stages A Woman of No Importance.

Sport

Football

• International

25 February England 6 - 1 Ireland (in Birmingham)^[3]

25 March Scotland 6 - 1 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[3]

5 April Ireland 4 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)^[3]

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 5 - 1 Cliftonville

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

Golf

• Ormeau Golf Club in Belfast is formed.

Births

January to June

• 5 February - John Lymbrick Esmonde, soldier, Fine Gael TD (d.1958).
• 22 February - Peadar O'Donnell, Irish Republican socialist, Marxist activist and writer (d.1986).
• 4 April - Dick McKee, Irish Republican Army member in Easter Rising, shot by Crown forces (d.1920).
• 14 May - George McElroy, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force pilot during World War I, killed in action (d.1918).
• 14 June - Séamus Burke, Sinn Féin TD, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedheal and later Fine Gael (d.1967).

July to December

• 26 July - E. R. Dodds, classical scholar (d.1973).
• 27 July - Margaret Dolan, oldest woman in Ireland when she died aged 111 (d.2004).
• 10 August - Mick O'Brien, soccer player and manager (d.1940).
• 30 September - Seán MacEoin, major general, former Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1973).
• 26 October - Thomas MacGreevy, poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland (d.1967).
• 1 November - Neal Blaney, Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member (d.1948).
• 9 November - Liam Lynch, commanding general of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army during the Irish Civil War, shot and killed (d.1923).

Full date unknown

• Tomás Bairéad, journalist and author (d.1973).
• Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author (d.1962).
• Denis Rolleston Gwynn, journalist, author and professor of Modern Irish History (d.1973).
• Mick Kenny, Galway hurler (d.1959).
• Eamon Martin, one of founders of Fianna Éireann, and an Irish Volunteer who fought in the Easter Rising (d.1971).
• Nora Connolly O'Brien, political activist, daughter of James Connolly (d.1981).
• Cathal O'Shannon, politician, trade unionist and journalist (d.1969).
• Seán Russell, Irish republican and a chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (d.1940).

Deaths

• 3 March - Hugh Nelson, politician in Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia (b.1830).
• 16 April - William Davis Ardagh, lawyer, judge and politician in Canada (b.1828).
• 27 April - John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand (b.1839).
• 5 September - Mike Cleary, boxer (b.1858).
• 8 November - Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (b.1815).
• 28 December - James Donnelly, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher (b.1823).

References