1895 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1895 in Ireland.
Events
- 22 March â the burned body of Bridget Cleary is discovered in County Tipperary; her husband, Michael, is 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.[1]
- 3â5 April â Wilde v Queensberry: Oscar Wilde presses a criminal libel case in London against the Marquess of Queensberry, who is defended by Edward Carson.[2][3] Wilde loses the case.
- 25 May â Regina v. Wilde: Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labour.
- 7 August â United Kingdom general election
- Edward Carson is re-elected in a Trinity College Dublin seat and as senior MP becomes a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.[2]
- Michael Davitt enters the British House of Commons as the elected Member of Parliament for South Mayo. He has been refused entry on two previous attempts.
- 23 December â Grand Opera House in Belfast is opened.
- 24 December â Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster: the Kingstown Life-boat capsizes on service: all fifteen crew are lost.[4]
- Belfast Botanic Gardens becomes a public park when Belfast Corporation purchases the gardens from the Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society.
Arts and literature
- 3 January â première of Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband in London.
- 14 February â première of Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, in London.[5]
- 4 April â First Kinetoscope exhibition in Ireland advertised, at the Dublin premises of the Kinetoscope Company.[6]
Sport
Football
- 1 May â Dundela F.C. is founded in Belfast.
- c. September â Shelbourne F.C. is 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 â John Moyney, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 north of Broembeek, Belgium (died 1980).
- March â Joe Murphy, member of Irish Republican Army, (died 1920 on 76-day hunger strike during the Irish War of Independence).
- 25 May â Liam Mellowes, Sinn Féin politician, member of 1st Dáil (executed 1922 in Mountjoy Jail).
- 2 June â Seán McLoughlin, nationalist and communist activist (died 1960).
- 16 June â Warren Lewis, soldier and historian, brother of C. S. Lewis (died 1973).
- 28 July â John Charles McQuaid, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland (died 1973).
- 3 August â 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 â Phelim Calleary, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1974).
- 24 October â Lady Constance Mary Annesley, afterwards Constance Malleson, writer and actress (as Colette O'Niel) (died 1975).
- 10 December â Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (died 1975).
- Full date unknown â Max Dunn, poet (died 1963 in Australia).
Deaths
- 5 February â Robert Montresor Rogers, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (born 1834).
- 11 May â Patrick Carlin, Victoria Cross recipient for gallantry in 1858 in India (born 1832).
- 14 August â Thomas Hovenden, artist and teacher (born 1840).
- 12 October â Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander, hymn-writer and poet (born 1818).
- 26 November â George Edward Dobson, zoologist, photographer and army surgeon (born 1848).