1893 in Ireland

Events

*February - Prime Minister Gladstone introduces his second Home Rule Bill to the House of Commons, where it is passed"Edward Carson". A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981] .
*26 April - Edward Carson is called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple
*31 July - Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill establish the Gaelic League. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ashorthistory/archive/intro209.shtml BBC Short History of Ireland] ] .
*8 September - Gladstone's second Home Rule Bill is rejected by the House of Lords.
*The biggest opposition to Home Rule manifests itself in Ulster, particularly amongst Protestants.
*Consecration of St. Mel's Church in County Longford takes place. The church had taken 53 years to build.

Arts and literature

* Douglas Hyde publishes "Love Songs of Connacht."
* William Butler Yeats publishes "The Rose."
* Oscar Wilde stages "A Woman of No Importance."

port

Football

*International::25 February England 6 - 1 Ireland (in Birmingham)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 153|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::25 March Scotland 6 - 1 Ireland (in Glasgow)::5 April Ireland 4 - 3 Wales (in Belfast)

*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 is formed.

Births

January to June

*5 February - John Lymbrick Esmonde, soldier, Fine Gael TD (d.1958).
*22 February - Peadar O'Donnell, Irish Republican socialist, Marxist activist and writer (d.1986).
*4 April - Dick McKee, Irish Republican Army member in Easter Rising, shot by Crown forces (d.1920).
*14 May - George McElroy, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force pilot during World War I, killed in action (d.1918).
*14 June - Séamus Burke, Sinn Féin TD, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedhael and later Fine Gael (d.1967).

July to December

*26 July - E. R. Dodds, classical scholar (d.1973).
*27 July - Margaret Dolan, oldest woman in Ireland when she died aged 111 (d.2004).
*10 August - Mick O'Brien, soccer player and manager (d.1940).
*30 September - Seán MacEoin, major general, former Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1973).
*26 October - Thomas MacGreevy, poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland (d.1967).
*1 November - Neal Blaney, Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member (d.1948).
*9 November - Liam Lynch, commanding general of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army during the Irish Civil War, shot and killed (d.1923).

Full date unknown

*Tomás Bairéad, journalist and author (d.1973).
*Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author (d.1962).
*Denis Rolleston Gwynn, journalist, author and professor of Modern Irish History (d.1973).
*Mick Kenny, Galway hurler (d.1959).
*Eamon Martin, one of founders of Fianna Éireann, and an Irish Volunteer who fought in the Easter Rising (d.1971).
*Nora Connolly O'Brien, political activist, daughter of James Connolly (d.1981).
*Cathal O'Shannon, politician, trade unionist and journalist (d.1969).
*Seán Russell, Irish republican and a chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (d.1940).

Deaths

*3 March - Hugh Nelson, politician in Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia (b.1830).
*16 April - William Davis Ardagh, lawyer, judge and politician in Canada (b.1828).
*27 April - John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand (b.1839).
*5 September - Mike Cleary, boxer (b.1858).
*8 November - Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (b.1815).
*28 December - James Donnelly, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher (b.1823).

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