1889 in Ireland explained
Events from the year 1889 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Boxing
Football
- International
2 March England 6–0 Ireland (in Liverpool)[6]
9 March Scotland 7–0 Ireland (in Glasgow)[6]
27 April Ireland 1–3 Wales (in Belfast)[6]
- Irish Cup
Winners: Distillery 5–4 YMCA
Gaelic Games
- The first GAA Armagh Championship is held.
- The hierarchy of the Catholic Church, including Archbishop Logue, condemn the GAA for its violence and demoralising influences as well as charging the association as a recruiting ground of radical nationalist organizations.
- 24 March – The first Cavan Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) convention is held in Armagh.
- 8 September – The Cavan Gaelic Athletic Association holds a football game between Killinkere and Crosserlough. The game is reported by The Anglo-Celt as "..More like a contest between 42 dangerous and ferocious wire haired lunatics than any competition."
Golf
Births
- 1 January – Patrick MacGill of Glenties, "navvy poet", journalist and novelist (died 1963).
- 10 January – Maurice Collis, colonial administrator and writer (died 1973).
- 2 February – Dorothy Macardle, author and historian (died 1958).
- 19 February – Albert Stewart, rugby player (killed in action 1917).
- 8 March – Ina Boyle, composer (died 1967).
- 17 March – Harry Clarke, stained glass artist and book illustrator (died 1931).
- 17 March – Fionán Lynch, Sinn Féin MP and TD, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister, Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael TD (died 1966).
- 12 April – Patrick McGilligan, Cumann na nGaedheal/Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1979).
- 13 April – Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (born 1975).
- 31 May – Helen Waddell, poet, translator and playwright (died 1965).
- 7 June – Frank Duff, founder of the Legion of Mary (died 1980).
- 10 June – Jack Finlay, Laois hurler and TD (died 1942).
- June – James Sleator, painter (died 1950).
- 19 July – John Vincent Holland, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Guillemont, France (died 1975).
- 22 July – Conor Maguire, Chief Justice of Ireland (died 1971).
- 22 August – Seán MacEntee, Fianna Fáil TD and Tánaiste from 1959 to 1965 (died 1984).
- 28 September – Seán Keating, painter (died 1977).
- 17 November
- 20 November – Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, New York-born novelist (died 1928).
- 24 November – James Macauley, soccer player (died 1945).
- 1 December – Michael Hayes, Pro-Treaty TD, Cabinet Minister, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann member (died 1976).
- 24 December – Patrick MacGill, journalist, poet and novelist (died 1963).
- Full date unknown
Deaths
- 23 January – Michael Joseph Barry, poet (born 1817).
- 9 February – Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia (born 1827).
- 29 February – Richard Pigott, newspaper editor, suicide (born 1835.
- 16 March – Hans Crocker, lawyer and Wisconsin politician (born 1815).
- 13 April – Thomas Lane, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (born 1836).
- 10 May – Edward Jennings, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (b. c.1820).
- 31 May – Charles Lanyon, architect (born 1813 in England).
- 8 June – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit poet and scholar (born 1844 in England).
- 19 July – Patrick Green, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (born 1824).
- 6 October – Hans Garrett Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1877 at Komgha, South Africa (born 1830).
- 21 October – John Ball, politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller (born 1818).
- 18 November – William Allingham, poet and diarist (born 1824).
- 29 November – Arthur Gerald Geoghegan, poet.
- 7 December – John Tuigg, third Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (born 1828).
- Full date unknown – Dr. Henry Hudson, magazine editor.
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Stewart, A.T.Q.. Edward Carson. Gill’s Irish Lives. Gill & Macmillan. Dublin. 1981.
- Book: Currie, J. R. L.. The Runaway Train – Armagh (1889). 1971. David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 0-7153-5198-2.
- Book: Ferris, Tom. The Irish Narrow Gauge, Volume 2, The Ulster Lines. Leicester. Midland Publishing. 1993. 1-85780-017-6.
- Book: Patterson, Edward M.. The Ballymena Lines. Newton Abbot. David & Charles. 1968. 0-7153-4183-9. 94.
- Web site: A Brief History. Portrush Lifeboat. 2013-01-19. 17 November 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131117014721/http://portrushlifeboat.com/history. dead.
- Book: Hayes, Dean. 2006 . Northern Ireland International Football Facts . Appletree Press . Belfast . 151–152. 0-86281-874-5.