1895 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1895 in Ireland.

Events

22 March – the burned body of Bridget Cleary is discovered in County Tipperary; her husband, Michael, is subsequently convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter, his defence being a belief that he had killed a changeling left in his wife's place after she had been abducted by fairies.^[1]
3–5 April – Wilde v Queensberry: Oscar Wilde presses a criminal libel case in London against the Marquess of Queensberry, who is defended by Edward Carson.^[2] ^[3] Wilde loses the case.
25 May – Regina v. Wilde: Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labour.
7 August – United Kingdom general election
- Edward Carson is re-elected in a Trinity College Dublin seat and as senior MP becomes a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.^[2]
- Michael Davitt enters the British House of Commons as the elected Member of Parliament for South Mayo. He has been refused entry on two previous attempts.
23 December – Grand Opera House in Belfast is opened.
24 December – Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster: the Kingstown Life-boat capsizes on service: all fifteen crew are lost.^[4]
Belfast Botanic Gardens becomes a public park when Belfast Corporation purchases the gardens from the Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society.

3 January – première of Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband in London.
14 February – première of Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, in London.^[5]
4 April – First Kinetoscope exhibition in Ireland advertised, at the Dublin premises of the Kinetoscope Company.^[6]

9 March England 9–0 Ireland (in Derby)^[7]

16 March Ireland 2–2 Wales (in Belfast)^[7]

30 March Scotland 3–1 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[7]

Winners: Linfield

1 May – Dundela F.C. is founded in Belfast.
c. September – Shelbourne F.C. is founded in the south Dublin suburb of Ringsend by a group of seven individuals, including James Rowan (St Margaret Place) and two Wall brothers Felix and Michael (Bath Avenue Place).

8 January – John Moyney, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 north of Broembeek, Belgium (died 1980).
March – Joe Murphy, member of Irish Republican Army, (died 1920 on 76-day hunger strike during the Irish War of Independence).
25 May – Liam Mellowes, Sinn Féin politician, member of 1st Dáil (executed 1922 in Mountjoy Jail).
2 June – Seán McLoughlin, nationalist and communist activist (died 1960).
16 June – Warren Lewis, soldier and historian, brother of C. S. Lewis (died 1973).
28 July – John Charles McQuaid, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland (died 1973).
3 August – James Samuel Emerson, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry (killed 1917 on the Hindenburg Line north of La Vacquerie, France).
3 October – Phelim Calleary, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1974).
24 October – Lady Constance Mary Annesley, afterwards Constance Malleson, writer and actress (as Colette O'Niel) (died 1975).
10 December – Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (died 1975).
Full date unknown – Max Dunn, poet (died 1963 in Australia).

5 February – Robert Montresor Rogers, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (born 1834).
11 May – Patrick Carlin, Victoria Cross recipient for gallantry in 1858 in India (born 1832).
14 August – Thomas Hovenden, artist and teacher (born 1840).
12 October – Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander, hymn-writer and poet (born 1818).
26 November – George Edward Dobson, zoologist, photographer and army surgeon (born 1848).

News: The Fairy Defense. David Willis. McCullough. The New York Times. 2000-10-08. 2007-03-23.
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Book: Holland, Merlin. Merlin Holland. Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde. Fourth Estate. London. 2003. 0-00-715418-6.
Lowth. Cormac. The Palme shipwreck and the lifeboat disaster of 1895. Blackrock Society Proceedings. 3. 94–105. 1995.
Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 0-14-102715-0. 2006.
Book: Condon, Denis. Early Irish Cinema 1895–1921. Dublin. Irish Academic Press. 2008. 978-0-7165-2972-9. 19.
Book: Hayes, Dean. 2006. Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Appletree Press. Belfast. 0-86281-874-5. 154.