1898 in Ireland

Events

*12 August - James Connolly launches the first issue of the "Workers' Republic" newsletter.cite book | last=Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds)| year=1967 |title=The Course of Irish History | publisher=The Mercier Press | location=Cork, Ireland | pages=p 380-381]
*September - Tom Clarke released after serving 15 years in Pentonville Prison.
*The Local Government Act is introduced. It establishes popularly elected local authorities and gives qualified women a vote for the first time.
*The Mary Immaculate College in Limerick is founded to train Catholic national school teachers.
*Dr. John Colohan of Dublin imports the first petrol driven car into Ireland.
*The Gaelic League holds its first feis at Macroom, County Cork.
*Work starts on the building of Belfast City Hall.

Arts and literature

* Oscar Wilde publishes "The Ballad of Reading Gaol."

port

Football

*International::19 February Wales 0 - 1 Ireland (in Llandudno)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 155-156|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::5 March Ireland 2 - 3 England (in Belfast)::26 March Ireland 0 - 3 Scotland (in Belfast)

*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Linfield 2 - 0 St Columb's Hall Celtic

Births

*6 January - James Fitzmaurice, pilot and aviation pioneer (d.1965).
*7 February - Reginald N. Webster, businessman in America and Thoroughbred racehorse owner (d.1983).
*13 February - Frank Aiken, Fianna Fáil TD and founding member, Cabinet Minister and Tánaiste (d.1983).
*28 February - Hugh O'Flaherty, Catholic priest, saved about 4,000 Allied soldiers and Jews in the Vatican during World War II (d.1963).
*6 June - Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet (d.2001).
*4 October - Charles McCausland, cricketer (d.1965).
*1 November - James Foley, cricketer (d.1969).
*29 November - C. S. Lewis, novelist and author of The Chronicles of Narnia (d.1963).

Full date unknown

*Liam Deasy, Irish Republican Army officer in the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War (d.1974).
*E. Chambré Hardman, photographer (d.1988).
*Patricia Lynch, children's writer (d.1972).

Deaths

*12 January - Daniel Connor, convict transported to Western Australia, businessman (b.1831).
*25 January - Frederick Dobson Middleton, British general noted for his service particularly in the North-West Rebellion (b.1825).
*14 February - Arthur Gwynn, cricketer and rugby player (b.1874).
*13 March - Richard Quain, physician (b.1816).
*17 March - John Thomas Ball, lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1875 - 1881 (b.1815).
*24 March - George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian (b.1843).
*1 April - Samuel Davidson, biblical scholar (b.1807).
*11 May - Dalton McCarthy, lawyer and politician in Canada (b.1836).
*29 June - William Knox Leet, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Inhlobana, Zululand, South Africa (b.1833).
*13 August - Charles Frederick Houghton, soldier and politician in Canada (b.1839).
*24 November - George James Allman, naturalist, Emeritus Professor of Natural History in Edinburgh (b.1812).
*1 December - Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton (b.1816).

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