1898 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1898 in Ireland.
Events
- By March â Dr. John F. Colohan of Dublin imports the first petrol driven car into Ireland, a Benz Velo.
- 6 July â Guglielmo Marconi conducts a test radio telegraph transmission for Lloyd's between Ballycastle, County Antrim, and Rathlin Island.
- 12 August â James Connolly launches the first issue of the Workers' Republic newsletter.[1]
- September â Tom Clarke is released[1] after serving 15 years in Pentonville Prison.
- 20 October â 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
- 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
Football
- Irish League
- Winners: Linfield
- Irish Cup
- Winners: Linfield 2â0 St Columb's Hall Celtic
Births
- 6 January â James Fitzmaurice, pilot and aviation pioneer (died 1965)
- 7 February â Reginald N. Webster, businessman in America and Thoroughbred racehorse owner (died 1983)
- 13 February â Frank Aiken, Fianna Fáil TD and founding member, Cabinet Minister and Tánaiste (died 1983)
- 28 February â Hugh O'Flaherty, Catholic priest, saved about 4,000 Allied soldiers and Jews in the Vatican during World War II (died 1963)
- 18 April â Patrick Hennessy, industrialist (died 1981)
- 6 June â Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet (died 2001)
- 4 October â Charles McCausland, cricketer (died 1965)
- 1 November â James Foley, cricketer (died 1969)
- 25 November â E. Chambré Hardman, photographer (died 1988)
- 29 November â C. S. Lewis, novelist, author of The Chronicles of Narnia (died 1963)[5]
- Full date unknown â Liam Deasy, Irish Republican Army officer in the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War (died 1974)
Deaths
- 12 January â Daniel Connor, convict transported to Western Australia, businessman (born 1831)
- 25 January â Frederick Dobson Middleton, British general noted for his service particularly in the North-West Rebellion (born 1825)
- 14 February â Arthur Gwynn, cricketer and rugby player (born 1874)
- 13 March â Richard Quain, physician (born 1816)
- 17 March â John Thomas Ball, lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1875â1881 (born 1815)
- 24 March â George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian (born 1843)
- 28 March â Sir John Arnott, businessman (born 1814 in Scotland)
- 1 April â Samuel Davidson, biblical scholar (born 1806)
- 11 May â Dalton McCarthy, lawyer and politician in Canada (born 1836)
- 29 June â William Knox Leet, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Inhlobana, Zululand, South Africa (born 1833)
- 13 August â Charles Frederick Houghton, soldier and politician in Canada (born 1839)
- 24 November â George James Allman, naturalist, Emeritus Professor of Natural History in Edinburgh (born 1812)
- 1 December â Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton (born 1816)