1896 in Ireland

Events

* James Connolly founds the Irish Republican Socialist Party.
* John Dillon assumes the leadership of the anti-Parnellite wing of the Home Rule Party.
* An extension is made to Arthur Balfour's Land Act. 1,500 bankrupt estates are made available for sale to tenants.
* Ireland's first motor vehicle laws are introduced.
* The first electric tram runs in the streets of Dublin.
* The Limavady hoard of prehistoric gold objects is discovered by Tom Nicholl while ploughing.
* Ireland's first cinema shows are held at Dan Lowry's Music Hall in Dublin.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*International::29 February Wales 6 - 1 Ireland (in Wrexham)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 154-155|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::7 March Ireland 0 - 2 England (in Belfast)::28 March Ireland 3 - 3 Scotland (in Belfast)

*Irish League::Winners: Distillery

*Irish Cup::Winners: Distillery 3 - 1 Glentoran

Tennis

* John Pius Boland wins gold medals for tennis at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Births

*15 February - Arthur Shields, actor (d.1970).
*March - Martin Joseph Sheehan, soldier and Royal Air Service Observer in World War I, killed in action (d.1918).
*4 April - Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet, diplomat and politician (d.1936).
*24 April - F. R. Higgins, poet and theatre director (d.1941).
*9 May - Austin Clarke, poet, playwright and writer (d.1974).
*22 May - Cyril Fagan, astrologer (d.1970).
*28 August - Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short story writer (d.1984).
*25 December - Sister Philippa Brazill, nurse in Australia (d.1988).

Full date unknown

*Monk Gibbon, poet and author (d.1987).
*Lady Mary Heath, aviator, athlete and writer (d.1939).
*Mark Killilea, Snr, Fianna Fáil TD, member of the Seanad (d.1970).

Deaths

*4 March - Peter Richard Kenrick, first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River (b.1806).
*4 May - Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b.1822).
*18 May - Patrick Alphonsus Buckley, soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge in New Zealand (b.1841).
*8 August - William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick, peer (b.1840).
*10 August - Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile (b.1842).
*15 August - Patrick Duggan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert (b.1813).
*22 September - Edward Selby Smyth, British General, commanded Militia of Canada from 1874 to 1880 (b.1819).
*1 November - Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (b.1862).
*31 December - Leland Hone, cricketer (b.1853).

Full date unknown

*Canon James Goodman, Irish music collector (b.1828).

References