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1898 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1898 in Ireland
.
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See also:
1898 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1898
List of years in Ireland
Events
edit
By March – Dr. John F. Colohan of
Dublin
imports the first petrol driven car into Ireland, a
Benz Velo
.
6 July –
Guglielmo Marconi
conducts a test
radio telegraph
transmission for
Lloyd's
between
Ballycastle, County Antrim
, and
Rathlin Island
.
12 August –
James Connolly
launches the first issue of the
Workers' Republic
newsletter.
[1]
September –
Tom Clarke
is released
[1]
after serving 15 years in
Pentonville Prison
.
20 October –
George Curzon
is created Baron Curzon of Kedleston,
[2]
the last appointment to the
Peerage of Ireland
.
The
Local Government (Ireland) Act
is introduced. It establishes popularly elected local authorities and gives qualified women a vote for the first time.
County Tipperary
is divided administratively into
North Tipperary
(
county town
:
Nenagh
) and
South Tipperary
(county town:
Clonmel
).
The
Mary Immaculate College
in
Limerick
is founded to train
Roman Catholic
national school teachers.
The
Gaelic League
holds its first
feis
at
Macroom
,
County Cork
.
Work starts on the building of
Belfast City Hall
.
Donegal Carpets
is established.
Arts and literature
edit
Eleanor Hull
publishes
The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature, being a collection of stories relating to the hero Cuchullin, translated from the Irish by various scholars
.
Peadar Ua Laoghaire
's story
Séadna
begins serialisation as the first
Irish language
novel (published in book form
1904
).
[3]
Oscar Wilde
publishes
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
.
Sport
edit
Football
edit
International
19 February Wales 0–1 Ireland (in
Llandudno
)
[4]
5 March Ireland 2–3 England (in
Belfast
)
[4]
26 March Ireland 0–3 Scotland (in Belfast)
[4]
Irish League
Winners:
Linfield
Irish Cup
Winners:
Linfield
2–0
St Columb's Hall Celtic
Births
edit
6 January –
James Fitzmaurice
, pilot and aviation pioneer (died
1965
)
7 February –
Reginald N. Webster
, businessman in America and
Thoroughbred
racehorse
owner (died
1983
)
13 February –
Frank Aiken
,
Fianna Fáil
TD
and founding member, Cabinet Minister and
Tánaiste
(died
1983
)
28 February –
Hugh O'Flaherty
,
Catholic
priest
, saved about 4,000 Allied soldiers and
Jews
in the
Vatican
during World War II (died
1963
)
18 April –
Patrick Hennessy
, industrialist (died
1981
)
6 June –
Ninette de Valois
, founder of the
Royal Ballet
(died
2001
)
4 October –
Charles McCausland
, cricketer (died
1965
)
1 November –
James Foley
, cricketer (died
1969
)
25 November –
E. Chambré Hardman
, photographer (died
1988
)
29 November –
C. S. Lewis
, novelist, author of
The Chronicles of Narnia
(died
1963
)
[5]
Full date unknown –
Liam Deasy
,
Irish Republican Army
officer in the
Irish War of Independence
and the
Irish Civil War
(died
1974
)
Deaths
edit
12 January –
Daniel Connor
,
convict
transported
to
Western Australia
, businessman (born
1831
)
25 January –
Frederick Dobson Middleton
, British general noted for his service particularly in the
North-West Rebellion
(born
1825
)
14 February –
Arthur Gwynn
, cricketer and rugby player (born
1874
)
13 March –
Richard Quain
, physician (born
1816
)
17 March –
John Thomas Ball
, lawyer, politician and
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
, 1875–1881 (born
1815
)
24 March –
George Thomas Stokes
, ecclesiastical historian (born
1843
)
28 March – Sir
John Arnott
, businessman (born
1814 in Scotland
)
1 April –
Samuel Davidson
, biblical scholar (born
1806
)
11 May –
Dalton McCarthy
, lawyer and politician in Canada (born
1836
)
29 June –
William Knox Leet
, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
for gallantry in 1879 at
Inhlobana
, Zululand, South Africa (born
1833
)
13 August –
Charles Frederick Houghton
, soldier and politician in Canada (born
1839
)
24 November –
George James Allman
, naturalist, Emeritus Professor of Natural History in
Edinburgh
(born
1812
)
1 December –
Charles Magill
, member of the
1st Canadian Parliament
and
mayor
of
Hamilton
(born
1816
)
See also
edit
1898 in Scotland
1898 in Wales
References
edit
^
a
b
Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967).
The Course of Irish History
. Cork: Mercier Press. pp. 380–381.
^
"No. 27016".
The London Gazette
. 21 October 1898. p. 6140.
^
Welch, Robert (1996).
Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature
. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-280080-9
.
^
a
b
c
Hayes, Dean (2006).
Northern Ireland International Football Facts
. Belfast: Appletree Press. pp. 155–156.
ISBN
0-86281-874-5
.
^
"C.S. Lewis | Biography, Books, Mere Christianity, Narnia, & Facts | Britannica".
www.britannica.com
. Retrieved
19 June
2023
.