1895 in Ireland

none 1895 Events from the year 1895 in Ireland. Events February – Lough Neagh became covered with ice (an extremely rare occurrence), as part of the Great Frost.Praeger Robert Lloyd The Way That I Went: An Irishman in Ireland 1980 First published 1937 Hodges Figgis Dublin 0-900372-93-1 Robert Lloyd Praeger 96 22 March – the burned body of Bridget Cleary was discovered in County Tipperary; her husband, Michael, was subsequently convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter, his defence being a belief that he had killed a changeling left in his wife's place after she had been abducted by fairies.https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE4D91E3AF93BA35753C1A9669C8B63 David Willis McCullough The Fairy Defense The New York Times 2000-10-08 2007-03-23 3–5 April – Wilde v Queensberry: Oscar Wilde pressed a criminal libel case in London against the Marquess of Queensberry, who was defended by Edward Carson.Edward Carson A. T. Q. Stewart Gill's Irish Lives Gill & Macmillan Dublin 1981Holland Merlin Merlin Holland Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde Fourth Estate London 2003 0-00-715418-6 Wilde loses the case. 25 May – Regina v. Wilde: Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labour. 7 August – United Kingdom general election Edward Carson was re-elected in a Trinity College Dublin seat and as senior MP became a member of the Privy Council of Ireland. Michael Davitt entered the British House of Commons as the elected Member of Parliament for South Mayo. He had been refused entry on two previous attempts. 23 December – Grand Opera House in Belfast was opened. 24 December – Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster: the Kingstown Life-boat capsizes on service: all fifteen crew were lost.Lowth Cormac The Palme shipwreck and the lifeboat disaster of 1895 Blackrock Society Proceedings 3 94–105 1995 Full date unknown Belfast Botanic Gardens became a public park when Belfast Corporation purchased the gardens from the Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society. Arts and literature 3 January – première of Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband in London. 14 February – première of Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, in London.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 4 April – First Kinetoscope exhibition in Ireland advertised, at the Dublin premises of the Kinetoscope Company.Denis Condon Early Irish Cinema 1895–1921 Dublin Irish Academic Press 2008 978-0-7165-2972-9 19 Sport Football International 9 March England 9–0 Ireland (in Derby)Hayes Dean 2006 Northern Ireland International Football Facts Appletree Press Belfast 0-86281-874-5 154 16 March Ireland 2–2 Wales (in Belfast) 30 March Scotland 3–1 Ireland (in Glasgow) Irish League Winners: Linfield Irish Cup Winners: Linfield 10–1 Bohemians 1 May – Dundela F.C. was founded in Belfast. c. September – Shelbourne F.C. was founded in the south Dublin suburb of 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 (died 1980). March – Joe Murphy, member of Irish Republican Army, (died 1920 on 76-day hunger strike during the Irish War of Independence). 25 May – Liam Mellowes, Sinn Féin politician, member of First Dáil (executed 1922 in Mountjoy Jail). 2 June – Seán McLoughlin, nationalist and communist activist (died 1960). 16 June – Warren Lewis, soldier and historian, brother of C. S. Lewis (died 1973). 28 July – John Charles McQuaid, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland (died 1973). 3 August – James Samuel Emerson, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry (killed 1917 on the Hindenburg Line north of La Vacquerie, France). 3 October – Phelim Calleary, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1974). 24 October – Lady Constance Mary Annesley, afterwards Constance Malleson, writer and actress (as Colette O'Niel) (died 1975). 10 December – Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (died 1975). Full date unknown – Max Dunn, poet (died 1963 in Australia). Deaths 5 February – Robert Montresor Rogers, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (born 1834). 11 May – Patrick Carlin, Victoria Cross recipient for gallantry in 1858 in India (born 1832). 14 August – Thomas Hovenden, artist and teacher (born 1840). 12 October – Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander, hymn-writer and poet (born 1818). 26 November – George Edward Dobson, zoologist, photographer and army surgeon (born 1848). See also 1895 in Scotland 1895 in Wales References Category:1890s in Ireland Ireland Ireland Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland