Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 6 References

[edit] Events

• 20 June - The newly covered St George's Market in Belfast is opened to the public.
• 17 November - Captain Wille O'Shea divorces his wife, Kitty O'Shea, and wins custody of their children. Charles Stewart Parnell is named as the co-respondent.
• 25 November - Despite of his personal problems Parnell is re-elected as leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
• Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone announces that Home Rule for Ireland is impossible as long as Parnell remains as leader of the Party.
• 6 December - After five days of discussion and argument about Parnell's leadership, 44 members of the Irish parliamentary Party walk out of the meeting and withdraw from the Party. Parnell is left with only 28 supporters.
• Albert Bridge, Belfast is completed.
• The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland is founded.
• A study finds that the most common Irish surnames are Murphy, Kelly, O'Sullivan and Walshe.

[edit] Arts and literature

• Douglas Hyde publishes Beside the Fire.

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• International

8 February Wales 5 - 2 Ireland (in Shrewsbury)^[1]

15 March Ireland 1 - 9 England (in Belfast)^[1]

29 March Ireland 1 - 4 Scotland (in Belfast)^[1]

• Irish Cup

Winners: Gordon Highlanders 2 - 2, 3 - 1 Cliftonville

• The Irish Football League is formed.
• Solitude football ground in Belfast, the home of Cliftonville, is opened, making it the oldest football ground in Ireland.
• Bohemian Football Club is founded in Dublin.

[edit] Births

• 12 February - Conn Ward, Fianna Fáil politician (d.1966).
• 23 March - James Gogarty, took part in Easter Rising, first known I.R.B. casualty of the Irish War of Independence (d.1921).
• 17 May - David P. Tyndall, businessman (d.1970).
• 11 July - William O'Dwyer, judge, District Attorney and 100th Mayor of New York City (d.1964).
• 16 October - Michael Collins, Revolutionary and Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army, Cabinet Minister, shot and killed (d.1922).
• 30 October - Arthur Bateman, cricketer (d.1918).

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• Jack Finlay, Laois hurler and TD (d.1942).
• Seamus Robinson, member of Irish Volunteers and Irish Republican Army (d.1961).

[edit] Deaths

• 12 January - Anthony Lefroy, Irish Conservative Party MP for Longford in the United Kingdom Parliament (b.1800).
• 14 March - C. P. Meehan, priest, poet and writer (b.1812).
• 4 April - Charles Joseph Alleyn, lawyer and political figure in Quebec (b.1817).
• 29 May - Samuel Mullen, bookseller (b.1828).
• 20 July - Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, art collector and MP (b.1818).
• 10 August - John Boyle O'Reilly, poet and novelist (b.1844).
• 18 September - Dion Boucicault, actor and playwright (b.c1820).

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• James P. Boyd, businessman and politician in Ontario (b.1826).
• John Coghlan, public works engineer in Argentina (b.1824).

[edit] References