1893 in Ireland explained

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]
• The Girls' Brigade is founded in Dublin, origin of the international Christian youth organisation.^[5]

Arts and literature

• 19 April – Oscar Wilde stages A Woman of No Importance in London.
• December – W. B. Yeats publishes The Celtic Twilight, giving a popular name to the Irish Literary Revival.^[6]
• Douglas Hyde publishes Love Songs of Connacht.

Sport

Football

International

25 February England 6–1 Ireland (in Birmingham)^[7]

25 March Scotland 6–1 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[7]

5 April Ireland 4–3 Wales (in Belfast)^[7]

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.

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).
• 13 October – Seán Russell, Irish republican and a chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (died 1940 at sea).
• 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).

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).

See also

• 1893 in Scotland
• 1893 in Wales

Notes and References

1. Lane. Pádraig G.. The Land and Labour Association 1894–1914. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 98. 91, 109. 1993.
2. Book: Stewart, A. T. Q.. Edward Carson. Gill's Irish Lives. Gill & Macmillan. Dublin. 1981.
3. News: St. Mel's Cathedral destroyed by fire . 25 December 2009 . 2009-12-25 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100117203358/http://www.longfordleader.ie/news/St-Mel39s-Cathedral-destroyed-by.5938801.jp . 17 January 2010 .
4. Web site: Cultural Revival. BBC. A Short History of Ireland. 2013-03-27.
5. Web site: History. The Girls' Brigade International Council. 2023-03-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20070207121828/http://www.gbic.org/History.htm. 2007-02-07. dead.
6. Yeats' collected editions feature a section titled The Rose, which is dated 1893, but Yeats never published a book titled "The Rose".
7. Book: Hayes, Dean. 2006 . Northern Ireland International Football Facts . Appletree Press . Belfast. 0-86281-874-5 . 153.