1884 in Ireland

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See also: 1883 in Ireland, other events of 1884, 1885 in Ireland and the list of years in Ireland.

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Events

• October - Ballymena, Cushendall and Red Bay Railway taken over by Belfast and Northern Counties Railway.^[1]
• 22 October - The first woman receives a degree from an Irish university. The degree is granted by the Royal University of Ireland.
• 1 November - The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded in Thurles.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Ireland are beaten 0-5 at home to Scotland in the first ever match in the British Home Championship, the world's first ever international football tournament.
• Irish Cup

Winners: Distillery 5 - 0 Wellington Park

[edit] Births

• 20 March - Tomás Mac Curtain, Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, murdered on his 36th birthday by the Black and Tans (d.1920).
• 17 June - Patrick Little, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1963).
• 23 June - Val Harris, soccer player and manager.
• 14 September - Frederick Alfred Pile, soldier and politician (d.1976).
• 4 November - Harry Ferguson, early aviator and developer of the modern agricultural tractor (d.1960).
• 16 December - J. M. Kerrigan, actor (d.1964).
• 17 December - Stanislaus Joyce, scholar and writer, brother of James Joyce, (d.1955).
• Helena Moloney, fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and was first woman president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (d.1967).
• William Twaddell, Ulster Unionist Party MP, assassinated by Irish Republican Army (d.1922).

[edit] Deaths

• 25 June - Philip Gore, 4th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and diplomat (b.1801).
• 17 October - Alexander Martin Sullivan, journalist, politician and lawyer (b.1829).

[edit] References