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6 May -Phoenix Park Murders Arts and literature
port
Football
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18 February Ireland 0 - 13 England (inBelfast )cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 149|isbn=0-86281-874-5] . First Irish international match.::25 February Wales 7 - 1 Ireland (inWrexham ). First Irish international goal scored by RS Johnston of Distillery.*
Irish Cup ::Winners: Queens Island 2 - 1 CliftonvilleBirths
January to June
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17 January -Henry George Farmer , musicologist (d.1965).
*2 February -James Joyce , writer and poet (d.1941).
*9 February - James Stephens, novelist and poet (d.1950).
*28 February -Pádraic Ó Conaire , journalist and writer (d.1928).
*17 March -Alfred Byrne ,Irish Nationalist politician, served both as an MP in theBritish House of Commons and as a TD inDáil Éireann (d.1956).
*24 April -Jack Rochford , Kilkenny hurler (d.1953).July to December
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1 July -Brian O'Higgins ,Sinn Féin MP and President (d.1963).
*2 August -Bryan Cusack , doctor,Sinn Féin MP, member1st Dáil (d.1973).
*25 August -Seán T. O'Kelly , founding member ofFianna Fáil , Cabinet Minister and secondPresident of Ireland (d.1966).
*6 October -William John English , recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 atVlakfontein ,South Africa (d.1941).
*11 October -John Cardinal D'Alton , Archbishop of Armagh andPrimate of All Ireland from1946 to1963 (d.1963).
*14 October -Éamon de Valera , President,Taoiseach and Founder ofFianna Fáil , born inManhattan , New York (d.1975).
*21 October -George Gavan Duffy , barrister,Sinn Féin MP (d.1951).
*20 November - John Aston, cricketer (d.1951).
*21 November -Thomas J. O'Connell , trade unionist,Irish Labour Party leader, TD and Senator (d.1969).Full date unknown
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Darrell Figgis , writer,Sinn Féin activist and independent politician (d.1925).
*Bulmer Hobson , member ofIrish Volunteers , socialist and writer (d.1969).
*Herbert Hughes, musicologist, composer and critic (d.1937).
*Anthony Mulvey , editor and Nationalist Party MP (d.1957).
*Thomas Sadleir , genealogist (d.1957).Deaths
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28 February -John Thomas Romney Robinson , astronomer and physicist (b.1792).
*7 April -Denis Florence MacCarthy , poet, translator, biographer (b.1817).
*17 April -Michael Hannan ,Archbishop inRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax ,Nova Scotia (b.1821).
*6 May - Thomas Henry Burke, Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office, assassinated in thePhoenix Park Murders (b.1829).
*9 December -Sir Joseph Napier, 1st Baronet , Conservative Party MP andLord Chancellor of Ireland (b.1804).Full date unknown
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J. J. McCarthy , architect (b.1817).
*Patrick Murray, theologian (b.1811).References
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