1892 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Golf 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Events

• June - Ulster Unionists hold a huge convention in Belfast at which they solemnly swear that “We will not have Home Rule”^[1].
• 1 July - Edward Carson sworn in as Solicitor-General for Ireland^[1].
• 9 July - In the General Election, Edward Carson, standing as a Liberal Unionist, is elected to one of two Trinity College, Dublin seats^[1].
• 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^[2].
• 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.

[edit] Arts and literature

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

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• 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.

[edit] Golf

• The first Irish Golf Championship is held.

[edit] Births

• 2 February - Alan McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (d.1958).
• 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).
• 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).
• 24 December - Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1918 on the Drocourt-Queant Line, France (d.1918).
• P. J. Ruttledge, Sinn Féin, then Fianna Fáil, TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1952).

[edit] Deaths

• 8 May - James Thomson, engineer and physicist (b.1822).
• 29 May - Richard Charles Mayne, British admiral, explorer and MP (b.1835).
• 30 November - Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer (b.1828).
• Robert Templeton, naturalist, artist and entomologist (b.1802).

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Edward Carson. A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981
2. ^ BBC Short History of Ireland