1891 in Ireland

Events

*June - Charles Stewart Parnell marries Kitty O'Shea in Sussex.
*6 October - Charles Stewart Parnell dies. Up to 200,000 people attend the funeral of the 'Uncrowned King of Ireland.'
* The Balfour Land Act makes more funds available for land purchase and sets up the Congested Districts Board for Ireland.
* Parnellites form the Irish National Federation and win seats in Sligo and Carlow.
* The Irish Daily Independent newspaper is founded. It becomes the Irish Independent in 1905.
* James Stephens, founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, returns home to Ireland after 25 years in exile.
* Michael Davitt, standing as an anti-Parnellite candidate, is defeated by John Redmond in a Waterford by-election.

Arts and literature

* Oscar Wilde publishes "The Picture of Dorian Gray."

port

Football

*International::7 February Ireland 7 - 2 Wales (in Belfast)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 152-153|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::7 March England 6 - 1 Ireland (in Wolverhampton)::March Scotland 2 - 1 Ireland (in Glasgow)

*Irish League::Winners: Linfield (first ever winners)

*Irish Cup::Winners: Linfield 4 - 2 Ulster

*Derry Olympic is founded. It joins the Irish Football League the next year, but only lasts one season.

Gaelic Games

* All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
**Kerry 2-3 : 1-5 Wexford
* All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
**Dublin 2-1 : 1-9 Cork

Births

January to June

*18 February - John M. O'Sullivan, Cumann na nGaedhael TD and cabinet Minister (d.1948).
*21 February - Harry Colley, Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member (d.1972).
*21 February - Seán Heuston, Fianna Éireann member, took part in the Easter Rising, executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail (d.1916).
*25 February - Edward Daly, took part in Easter Rising, executed by firing squad (d.1916).
*March - Emily Anderson, British Foreign Office official and scholar of German (d.1962).
*20 June - John A. Costello, barrister, Attorney-General, Fine Gael TD and twice Taoiseach (d.1976).

July to December

*3 July - Arthur Blair-White, cricketer (d.1975).
*6 August - Billy Gillespie, soccer player (d.1981).
*23 October - John Caffrey, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 near La Brique, France (d.1953).
*1 November - Peter J. Ward, Sinn Féin (later Cumann na nGaedhael) TD, member 1st Dáil (d.1970).
*15 November - Willie Pearse, took part in the Easter Rising, executed, brother of Patrick Pearse (d.1916).
*6 December - James Ryan, Fianna Fáil TD Member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (d.1970).

Full date unknown

*Bridget Dowling, Adolf Hitler's sister-in-law via her marriage to Alois Hitler, Jr. (d.1969).
*Patrick Hogan, Sinn Féin and Cumann na nGaedhael TD (d.1936).
*Joseph O'Doherty, Sinn Féin MP, Fianna Fáil TD and Seanad member (d.1979).

Deaths

*5 May - William Connor Magee, Anglican clergyman, Archbishop of York (b.1821).
*18 May - Thomas Grady, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at Sebastopol, the Crimea (b.1835).
*15 June - James Patrick Mahon, Irish nationalist politician and international mercenary (b.1800).
*6 October - Charles Stewart Parnell, political leader.
*28 November - William James Lendrim, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the Siege of Sevastopol, Crimea (b.1830).
*12 December - Alexander Workman, politician in Canada and Mayor of Ottawa (b.1798).
*13 December - William Gorman Wills, dramatist and painter (b.1828).

Full date unknown

*Augustus Nicholas Burke, artist (b.1838).
*James O'Connor, first Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Diocese of Omaha (b.1823).

References