1895 in Ireland

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Events

• 22 March - The burned body of Bridget Cleary is discovered in County Tipperary; her husband, Michael, is subsequently convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter, his defence being a belief that he had killed a changeling left in his wife's place after she had been abducted by fairies.^[1]
• 3 April - Wilde v Queensberry: Oscar Wilde launches a criminal libel case in London against the Marquess of Queensberry, who is defended by Edward Carson.^[2][3] Wilde loses the case.
• 25 May - Regina v. Wilde: Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labour.
• 7 August - United Kingdom general election
  • Edward Carson is re-elected in a Trinity College, Dublin seat and as senior MP becomes a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.^[2]
  • Michael Davitt enters the British House of Commons as the elected Member of Parliament for South Mayo. He has been refused entry on two previous attempts.
• 23 December - Grand Opera House in Belfast is opened.
• 24 December - Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster: The Kingstown Life-boat capsizes on service: all fifteen crew are lost.^[4]
• Belfast Botanic Gardens becomes a public park when Belfast Corporation purchases the gardens from the Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society.

Arts and literature

• 3 January - Première of Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband in London.
• 14 February - Première of Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, in London.^[5]

Sport

Football

• International

9 March England 9 - 0 Ireland (in Derby)^[6]

16 March Ireland 2 - 2 Wales (in Belfast)^[6]

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

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 10 - 1 Bohemians

• Shelbourne F.C. is founded in the south Dublin suburb of Ringsend by a group of seven individuals, including James Rowan (St Margaret Place) and two Wall brothers Felix and Michael (Bath Avenue Place).
• Dundela F.C. is founded in Belfast.

Births

• 8 January - John Moyney, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 north of Broembeek, Belgium (died 1980).
• March - Joe Murphy, member of Irish Republican Army, (died 1920 on 76 day hunger strike during the Irish War of Independence).
• 25 May - Liam Mellowes, Sinn Féin politician, member of 1st Dáil (executed 1922 in Mountjoy Jail).
• 16 June - Warren Lewis, soldier and historian, brother of C. S. Lewis (died 1973).
• 28 July - John Charles McQuaid, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland (died 1973).
• 3 August - James Samuel Emerson, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry (killed 1917 on the Hindenburg Line north of La Vacquerie, France).
• 3 October - Phelim Calleary, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1974).
• 24 October - Lady Constance Mary Annesley, afterwards Constance Malleson, writer and actress (as Colette O'Niel) (died 1975).
• 10 December - Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (died 1975).

Full date unknown

• John Doherty, fiddle player (died 1980).
• Florence O'Donoghue, historian and Irish Republican Army intelligence officer (died 1967).

Deaths

• 5 February - Robert Montresor Rogers, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (born 1834).
• 11 May - Patrick Carlin, Victoria Cross recipient for gallantry in 1858 in India (born 1832).
• 14 August - Thomas Hovenden, artist and teacher (born 1840).
• 12 October - Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander, hymn-writer and poet (born 1818).
• 26 November - George Edward Dobson, zoologist, photographer and army surgeon (born 1848).

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