1895 in Ireland

Events

*3 April - Oscar Wilde launches a criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry"Edward Carson". A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981] . During the trial he collapses under cross-examination by Edward Carson, and is eventually found guilty and imprisoned for two years on homosexuality charges.
*23 December - Grand Opera House in Belfast is opened.
*24 December - Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster the crew of fifteen were lost.
*Michael Davitt enters the British House of Commons as the elected Member of Parliament for South Mayo. He is refused entry on two previous attempts.
*Belfast Botanic Gardens becomes a public park when Belfast Corporation purchases the gardens from the Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society.
*In the 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.

Arts and literature

* Oscar Wilde stages "An Ideal Husband" and "The Importance of Being Earnest."

port

Football

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*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Linfield 10 - 1 Bohemians

*Shelbourne are founded in the south Dublin city suburb Ringsend by a group of seven individuals, including James Rowan (St Margaret Place) and two Wall brothers Felix and Michael (Bath Avenue Place).

Births

*8 January - John Moyney, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 north of Broembeek, Belgium (d.1980).
*March - Joe Murphy, member of Irish Republican Army, died on 76 day hunger strike during the Irish War of Independence (d.1920).
*25 May - Liam Mellowes, Sinn Féin politician, member of 1st Dáil. Executed in Mountjoy Jail (d.1922).
*16 June - Warren Lewis, soldier and historian, brother of C. S. Lewis (d.1973).
*28 July - John Charles McQuaid, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland (d.1973).
*3 August - James Samuel Emerson, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 on the Hindenberg Line north of La Vacquerie, France (d.1917).
*3 October - Phelim Calleary, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1974).
*10 December - Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (d.1975).

Full date unknown

* John Doherty, fiddle player (d.1980).
* Florence O'Donoghue, historian and Irish Republican Army intelligence officer (d.1967).

Deaths

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

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