1893 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1893 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]

Arts and literature

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

Sport

Football

• International

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]

• 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 and Ballybunion Golf Club are formed.

Births

January to June

• 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).

July to December

• 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).

Full date unknown

• 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).

Deaths

• 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).

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