1893 in Ireland

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1893
in
Ireland

Decades:	1870s • 1880s • 1890s • 1900s • 1910s
Centuries:	17th • 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st
See also:	1893 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1893 List of years in Ireland

Events

19 January - Michael Logue is created a cardinal, the first Archbishop of Armagh to be so elevated.
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] The biggest opposition to Home Rule manifests itself in Ulster, particularly amongst Protestants.
26 April - Edward Carson is called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple^[1]
19 May - The neoclassical Roman Catholic St Mel's cathedral, Longford (foundation stone laid 1840 and opened for worship in 1856), is consecrated.^[2]
31 July - Douglas Hyde, Eoin MacNeill, Eugene O'Growney and Thomas O'Neill Russell establish the Gaelic League to encourage the preservation of Irish culture, with Hyde becoming its first president.^[3]
8 September - Gladstone's second Home Rule Bill is rejected by the House of Lords.^[1]

Douglas Hyde publishes Love Songs of Connacht.
William Butler Yeats publishes The Celtic Twilight, giving a popular name to the Irish Literary Revival.^[4]
Oscar Wilde stages A Woman of No Importance.

25 February England 6 - 1 Ireland (in Birmingham)^[5]

25 March Scotland 6 - 1 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[5]

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

Winners: Linfield

Winners: Linfield 5 - 1 Cliftonville

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

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).

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).

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).

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).

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Stewart, A. T. Q. (1981). Edward Carson. Gill's Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
↑ "St. Mel's Cathedral destroyed by fire". Longford Leader. 25 December 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-25.
↑ "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".
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 153. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.

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