Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Events

• 16 January - The lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, -19.1C (-2.4F) at Markree, County Sligo^[1].
• 3 February - Arrest of Michael Davitt.^[2]
• William Ewart Gladstone’s second Land Act secures the three”f”s (fair rents, fixity of tenure and free sale)^[3].
• Coercion Acts.^[2]
• October - Arrest of Charles Stewart Parnell and other leaders.^[2]
• 18 October - No-Rent manifesto.^[2]
• 19 October - Irish National Land League proclaimed as an unlawful association.^[2]

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish Cup

Winners: Moyola Park 1 - 0 Cliftonville (first ever Irish Cup winners)

[edit] Births

• 23 January - William X. O'Brien, politician and trade unionist (d.1968).
• 10 February - Kenneth McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (d.1960).
• 15 February - Piaras Béaslaí, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Éireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator (d.1965).
• 21 March - Seán O'Hegarty, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence (d.1963).
• 28 March - Martin Sheridan, Olympic gold medallist for the United States (d.1918).
• 24 April - John Joe O'Reilly, Cumann na nGaedhael and Fine Gael TD (d.1967).
• 20 May - Robert Gregory, cricketer and artist (d.1918).
• 26 July - James Cecil Parke, international rugby player, tennis player, golfer and Olympic medallist (d.1946).
• 21 September - Éamonn Ceannt, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader, executed (d.1916).
• 13 November - Con Collins, Sinn Féin MP (d.1937).
• 13 November - John Tudor Gwynn, cricketer (d.1956).
• 8 December - Padraic Colum, poet, novelist and dramatist (d.1972).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Robert Barton, Sinn Féin MP, Cabinet Minister and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 (d.1975).
• William Conor, artist (d.1968).
• William John Leech, painter (d.1968).

[edit] Deaths

• 30 January - Anna Maria Hall, novelist (b.1800).
• January - Alfred Elmore, painter (b.1815).
• 5 February - Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor (b.1814).
• 1 August - Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer (b.1861).
• 9 September - Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, politician (b.1818).
• 5 November - Robert Mallet, geologist, civil engineer and inventor (b.1810).
• 7 November - John McHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Irish Nationalist and writer (b.1791).

[edit] References