1894 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Golf 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 6 References

Events

• The former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom William Ewart Gladstone retires from politics. In his career he introduced land reform to Ireland and also attempted to grant Home Rule.
• The first meeting of the Irish Trade Union Congress takes place.
• The Irish Agricultural Organisation Society is established by Horace Plunkett. The new organisation encourages the co-operative movement.

Arts and literature

• Somerville and Ross publish The Real Charlotte.
• George Moore publishes Esther Waters.

Sport

Football

• International

24 February Wales 4 - 1 Ireland (in Swansea)^[1]

3 March Ireland 2 - 2 England (in Belfast)^[1]

31 March Ireland 1 - 2 Scotland (in Belfast)^[1]

• Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

• Irish Cup

Winners: Distillery 2 - 2, 3 - 2 Linfield

Golf

• Portstewart Golf Club, County Londonderry, was founded.

Births

• 1 January - Augustine Kelly, cricketer (d.1960).
• 30 January - Wentworth Allen, cricketer (d.1943).
• 1 May - James Everett, Irish Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, famed for Battle of Baltinglass, 44 years service as a TD (d.1967).
• 23 July - Norman Stronge, Ulster Unionist Party politician and Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons for 23 years (d.1981).
• 24 August - Elisha Scott, footballer (d.1959).
• 30 September - Michael Tierney, Cumann na nGaedhael TD, member of Seanad Éireann and President of University College Dublin (d.1975).
• 3 October - Frederick Jeremiah Edwards, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Thiepval, France (d.1964).
• 14 October - Tom McEllistrim, Snr, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1973).
• 14 November - Daniel Joseph Sheehan, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I, killed in action (d.1917).
• 17 December - Cecile O'Rahilly, scholar of the Celtic languages and writer (d.1980).

Full date unknown

• Eddie Duffy, traditional Irish musician (d.1986).
• Ronald Ossory Dunlop, painter and author (d.1973).
• Evie Hone, painter and stained glass artist (d.1955).
• Billy McCandless, footballer and football manager (d.1955).
• Walter Starkie, author and translator (d.1976).

Deaths

• 26 September - Launt Thompson, sculptor (d.1833).
• 28 December - James Graham Fair, part-owner of the Comstock Lode, United States Senator and real estate and railroad speculator (b.1831).

References

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