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Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Boxing
- July 8 – The last official bare knuckles title fight ever held as Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan defeats Jack Kilrain in a world championship bout lasting 75 rounds.
Football
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- 2 March England 6 – 0 Ireland (in Liverpool)[3]
- 9 March Scotland 7 – 0 Ireland (in Glasgow)[3]
- 27 April Ireland 1 – 3 Wales (in Belfast)[3]
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- Winners: Distillery 5 – 4 YMCA
Gaelic Games
- The first GAA Armagh Championship is held.
- The hierarchy of the Catholic Church, including Archbishop Logue, condemn the GAA for its violence and demoralising influences as well as charging the association as a recruiting ground of radical nationalist organizations.
- March 24 – The first Cavan Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) convention is held in Armagh.
- September 8 – The Cavan Gaelic Athletic Association holds a football game between Killinkere and Crosserlough. The game is reported by the Anglo-Celt as "..More like a contest between 42 dangerous and ferocious wire haired lunatics than any competition."
Golf
Births
January to June
- 1 January – Patrick McGill, in Glenties, writer.
- 10 January – Maurice Collis, colonial administrator and writer (d.1973).
- 2 February – Dorothy Macardle, author and historian (d.1958).
- 17 March – Harry Clarke, stained glass artist and book illustrator (d.1931).
- 12 April – Patrick McGilligan – Cumann na nGaedhael/Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1979).
- 13 April – Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (b.1975).
- 7 June – Frank Duff, founder of the Legion of Mary (d.1980).
- June – James Sleator, painter (d.1950).
July to December
- 19 July – John Vincent Holland, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Guillemont, France (d.1975).
- 22 August – Seán MacEntee, Fianna Fáil TD and Tánaiste from 1959 to 1965 (d.1984).
- 17 November – James Duffy, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 at Kereina Peak, Palestine (d.1969).
- 20 November – Donn Byrne, writer.
- 1 December – Michael Hayes, Pro-Treaty TD, Cabinet Minister, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann member (d.1976).
- 24 December – Patrick MacGill, journalist, poet and novelist (d.1963).
Full date unknown
- Ina Boyle, conductor.
- Arthur Duff, conductor.
- Seán Keating, painter (d.1977).
- Finian Lynch, Sinn Féin MP and TD, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister, Cumann na nGaedhael and Fine Gael TD (d.1966).
- James Macauley, former soccer player.
- Sean Moylan, Sinn Féin leader, Fianna Fáil TD, member of 9th Seanad.
- Séamus Ó Grianna, writer (d.1969).
- Michael Riordan, San Francisco Police Department Chief (d.1967).
- Helen Waddell, poet, translator and playwright (d.1965).
Deaths
- 9 February – Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia (b.1827).
- 29 February – Richard Pigott, newspaper editor.
- 16 March – Hans Crocker, lawyer and Wisconsin politician (b.1815).
- 13 April – Thomas Lane, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (b.1836).
- 10 May – Edward Jennings, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (b. c1820).
- 19 July – Patrick Green, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (b.1824).
- 6 October – Hans Garrett Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1877 at Komgha, South Africa (b.1830).
- 21 October – John Ball, politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller (b.1818).
- 18 November – William Allingham, poet.
- 7 December – John Tuigg, third Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b.1828).
Full date unknown
References
- ^ Edward Carson. A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981
- ^ Ferris, T (1993). The Irish Narrow Gauge (Volume 2, The Ulster Lines). Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-017-6.
- ^ a b c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press, p 151-152. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.
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