1890 in Ireland

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Events

• 20 June - The newly covered St George's Market in Belfast is opened to the public.
• July - The new Guildhall (Victoria Hall) in Derry, financed by The Honourable The Irish Society, is opened.^[1]
• 17 November - Captain Willy O'Shea divorces his wife, Kitty, and wins custody of their children. Charles Stewart Parnell is named as the co-respondent.
• 25 November - Despite his personal problems Parnell is re-elected as leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
• 26 November - Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone announces that as long as Parnell remains as leader of the Party, the next general election will be lost and Home Rule for Ireland will be impossible.
• 6 December - After five days of discussion and argument about Parnell's leadership, 44 members of the Irish Parliamentary Party walk out of the meeting and withdraw from the Party, most going on to form the Irish National Federation. Parnell is left with only 28 supporters in the Irish National League.
• Albert Bridge, Belfast is completed.
• Dublin Museum of Science and Art opens.
• The parish church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Ennis becomes pro-cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe.
• The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland is founded.
• A study finds that the most common Irish surnames are Murphy, Kelly, O'Sullivan and Walshe.

Arts and literature

• Douglas Hyde publishes Beside the Fire.
• 13 December - W. B. Yeats' poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree first published, in The National Observer (London).

Sport

Football

• International

8 February Wales 5 - 2 Ireland (in Shrewsbury)^[2]

15 March Ireland 1 - 9 England (in Belfast)^[2]

29 March Ireland 1 - 4 Scotland (in Belfast)^[2]

• Irish Cup

Winners: Gordon Highlanders 2 - 2, 3 - 1 Cliftonville

• The Irish Football League is formed.
• Solitude football ground in Belfast, the home of Cliftonville, is opened, making it the oldest football ground in Ireland.
• Bohemian Football Club is founded in Dublin.

Births

• 12 February - Conn Ward, Fianna Fáil politician (died 1966).
• 23 March - James Gogarty, took part in Easter Rising, first known I.R.B. casualty of the Irish War of Independence (died 1921).
• 17 May - David P. Tyndall, businessman (died 1970).
• 11 July - William O'Dwyer, judge, District Attorney and 100th Mayor of New York City (died 1964).
• 16 October - Michael Collins, Revolutionary and Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army, Cabinet Minister, shot and killed (died 1922).
• 30 October - Arthur Bateman, cricketer (died 1918).
• 1 December - The Hon. Mary Westenra, later Mary Bailey, aviator (died 1960).

Full date unknown

• Jack Finlay, Laois hurler and TD (died 1942).
• Seamus Robinson, member of Irish Volunteers and Irish Republican Army (died 1961).

Deaths

• 12 January - Anthony Lefroy, Irish Conservative Party MP for Longford in the United Kingdom Parliament (born 1800).
• 14 March - C. P. Meehan, priest, poet and writer (born 1812).
• 4 April - Charles Joseph Alleyn, lawyer and political figure in Quebec (born 1817).
• 29 May - Samuel Mullen, bookseller (born 1828).
• 20 July - Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, art collector and MP (born 1818).
• 10 August - John Boyle O'Reilly, poet and novelist (born 1844).
• 18 September - Dion Boucicault, actor and playwright (b.c1820).

Full date unknown

• James P. Boyd, businessman and politician in Ontario (born 1826).
• John Coghlan, public works engineer in Argentina (born 1824).

References