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Events
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February - Prime Minister Gladstone introduces his second Home Rule Bill to the House of Commons, where it is passed"Edward Carson". A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981] .
*26 April -Edward Carson is called to the English Bar at theMiddle Temple
*31 July -Douglas Hyde andEoin MacNeill establish theGaelic League . [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ashorthistory/archive/intro209.shtml BBC Short History of Ireland] ] .
*8 September - Gladstone's second Home Rule Bill is rejected by theHouse of Lords .
*The biggest opposition toHome Rule manifests itself inUlster , particularly amongstProtestant s.
*Consecration of St. Mel's Church inCounty Longford takes place. The church had taken 53 years to build.Arts and literature
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Douglas Hyde publishes "Love Songs of Connacht ."
*William Butler Yeats publishes "The Rose ."
*Oscar Wilde stages "A Woman of No Importance ."port
Football
*International::
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Irish Cup ::Winners: Linfield 5 - 1 Cliftonville*Derry Olympic becomes defunct after only one season in the
Irish Football League .Golf
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Ormeau Golf Club inBelfast is formed.Births
January to June
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5 February -John Lymbrick Esmonde , soldier,Fine Gael TD (d.1958).
*22 February -Peadar O'Donnell ,Irish Republican socialist, Marxist activist and writer (d.1986).
*4 April -Dick McKee ,Irish Republican Army member inEaster Rising , shot by Crown forces (d.1920).
*14 May -George McElroy ,Royal Flying Corps andRoyal Air Force pilot duringWorld War I , killed in action (d.1918).
*14 June -Séamus Burke ,Sinn Féin TD, a founder-member ofCumann na nGaedhael and laterFine Gael (d.1967).July to December
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26 July -E. R. Dodds , classical scholar (d.1973).
*27 July -Margaret Dolan , oldest woman in Ireland when she died aged 111 (d.2004).
*10 August - Mick O'Brien, soccer player and manager (d.1940).
*30 September -Seán MacEoin , major general, formerFine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1973).
*26 October -Thomas MacGreevy , poet and director of theNational Gallery of Ireland (d.1967).
*1 November -Neal Blaney ,Fianna Fáil TD,Seanad member (d.1948).
*9 November - Liam Lynch, commanding general of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army during theIrish Civil War , shot and killed (d.1923).Full date unknown
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Tomás Bairéad , journalist and author (d.1973).
*Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author (d.1962).
*Denis Rolleston Gwynn , journalist, author and professor of Modern Irish History (d.1973).
*Mick Kenny , Galway hurler (d.1959).
*Eamon Martin , one of founders ofFianna Éireann , and an Irish Volunteer who fought in theEaster Rising (d.1971).
*Nora Connolly O'Brien , political activist, daughter ofJames Connolly (d.1981).
*Cathal O'Shannon , politician, trade unionist and journalist (d.1969).
*Seán Russell , Irish republican and a chief of staff of theIrish Republican Army (d.1940).Deaths
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3 March - Hugh Nelson, politician inCanada andLieutenant-Governor of British Columbia (b.1830).
*16 April -William Davis Ardagh , lawyer, judge and politician inCanada (b.1828).
*27 April -John Ballance , 14th Premier of New Zealand (b.1839).
*5 September -Mike Cleary , boxer (b.1858).
*8 November -Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie , geographer (b.1815).
*28 December -James Donnelly ,Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher (b.1823).References
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