1892 in Ireland

Events

*June - Ulster Unionists hold a huge convention in Belfast at which they solemnly swear that “We will not have Home Rule”"Edward Carson". A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981] .
*1 July - Edward Carson sworn in as Solicitor-General for Ireland.
*9 July - In the General Election, Edward Carson, standing as a Liberal Unionist, is elected to one of two Trinity College, Dublin seats.
*25 November - Douglas Hyde lectures to the Irish National Literary Society, on "The Necessity for de-anglicising the Irish People". Precursor to founding of Gaelic League [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ashorthistory/archive/intro209.shtml BBC Short History of Ireland] ] .
* The Belfast Labour Party, the first Socialist Party in Ireland, is established in Belfast.
* Free primary schooling and compulsory education up to the age of 14 is introduced through the Irish Education Act.
* Professor John Joly of Trinity College Dublin invents the first practical colour photographic process.

Arts and literature

* The Irish National Literary Society is founded.
* Oscar Wilde stages "Lady Windermere's Fan."

port

Football

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*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Linfield 7 - 0 The Black Watch

*Derry Olympic becomes only the second non-Belfast team in the Irish Football League, but only lasted one season.
*The Leinster Football Association is founded as the game's popularity is no longer confined to Ulster.
*The Oval football ground in Belfast is opened as the home of Glentoran.

Golf

* The first Irish Golf Championship is held.

Births

*2 February - Alan McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (d.1958).
*5 March - Tom Hales, Irish Republican Army volunteer, fought in Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War (d.1966).
*4 April - Tom Jameson, cricketer (d.1965).
*6 May - Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster, peer and gambler (d.1976).
*7 June - Kevin O'Higgins, Minister for Justice, assassinated by the Irish Republican Army (d.1927).
*15 August - Derrick Hall, cricketer (d.1947).
*20 September - Patricia Collinge, actress and writer (d.1974).
*15 October - James Kempster, cricketer (d.1975).
*20 October - Eoin O'Duffy, first leader of Fine Gael and the Blueshirts, leader of Irish volunteers on the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War (d.1944).
*26 November - Mike McTigue, boxer, light heavyweight champion of the world from 1923-1925 (d.1966).
*24 December - Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1918 on the Drocourt-Queant Line, France (d.1918).

Full date unknown

*Eamon Bulfin, Irish republican (d.1968).
*Willie Hough, Limerick hurler (d.1976).
*Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of the assassinated Michael Collins (d.1945).
*P. J. Ruttledge, Sinn Féin, then Fianna Fáil, TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1952).

Deaths

*26 January - Bernard Diamond, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Bolandshahr, India (b.1827).
*5 February - John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri (b.1805).
*29 February - John Lucas, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1861 in New Zealand (b.1827).
*8 May - James Thomson, engineer and physicist (b.1822).
*17 May - William Walsh, U.S. Congressman in Maryland (b.1828).
*29 May - Richard Charles Mayne, British admiral, explorer and MP (b.1835).
*31 May - John Kean, businessman and politician in Ontario (b.1820).
*August - John Doyle, soldier at the Charge of the Light Brigade (b. c1828).
*29 October - William Harnett, painter (b.1848).
*30 November - Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer (b.1828).

Full date unknown

*Robert Templeton, naturalist, artist and entomologist (b.1802).

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