1893 in Ireland

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See also:1893 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1893 in Ireland.

Events[]

  • January – the National Labour League, a predecessor of the Irish Land and Labour Association, is founded in Kanturk, County Cork.[1]
  • 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.[2] 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[2]
  • 19 May – the neoclassical Roman Catholic St Mel's cathedral, Longford (foundation stone laid 1840 and opened for worship in 1856), is consecrated.[3]
  • 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.[4]
  • 8 September – Gladstone's second Home Rule Bill is rejected by the House of Lords.[2]

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.[5]
  • Douglas Hyde publishes .

Sport[]

Football[]

  • International
    25 February England 6–1 Ireland (in Birmingham)[6]
    25 March Scotland 6–1 Ireland (in Glasgow)[6]
    5 April Ireland 4–3 Wales (in Belfast)[6]
  • Irish League
    Winners: Linfield
  • 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.

Hockey[]

  • Irish Hockey Union was formed on 6 February.

Births[]

  • 26 January – Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of Michael Collins (died 1945)
  • 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).
  • 6 March – Denis Rolleston Gwynn, journalist, author and professor of modern Irish history (died 1973).
  • 4 April – Dick McKee, Irish Republican Army member in Easter Rising (shot by Crown forces 1920).
  • 14 May – George McElroy, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force pilot during World War I (killed in action 1918).
  • 9 June – Cathal O'Shannon, politician, trade unionist and journalist (died 1969).
  • 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).
  • 10 August – Mick O'Brien, soccer player and manager (died 1940).
  • 30 September – Seán MacEoin, major general, 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 1923).
  • 20 December
    • Eddie Duffy, traditional Irish musician (died 1986).
    • Billy McCandless, footballer and football manager (died 1955).
    Full date unknown
    • Tomás Bairéad, journalist and author (died 1973).
    • Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author (died 1962).
    • Mick Kenny, Galway hurler (died 1959).
    • Harry Midgley, Northern Ireland Labour Party member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and alderman of Belfast (died 1957).
    • 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).

References[]

  1. ^ Lane, Pádraig G. (1993). "The Land and Labour Association 1894–1914". Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 98: 91, 109.
  2. ^ a b c Stewart, A. T. Q. (1981). Edward Carson. Gill's Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
  3. ^ "St. Mel's Cathedral destroyed by fire". Longford Leader. 25 December 2009. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 2009-12-25.
  4. ^ "Cultural Revival". A Short History of Ireland. BBC. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
  5. ^ Yeats' collected editions feature a section titled The Rose, which is dated 1893, but Yeats never published a book titled "The Rose".
  6. ^ a b c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 153. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.
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