1896 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1896 in Ireland.
Contents
Events
- 16 May - The first electric tram runs on the Dublin tramways system.
- 28 March - Tom Gallaher incorporates the Gallaher tobacco business and opens the world's largest tobacco factory in Belfast.
- 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 Limavady hoard of prehistoric gold objects is discovered by Tom Nicholl while ploughing.
- Restoration of the Church of Ireland's Kildare Cathedral is completed.
Arts and literature
- 20 April - First cinema show in Ireland, at Dan Lowry's Star of Erin Variety Theatre in Dublin.[1]
- The lyrics of The Mountains of Mourne are written by Percy French with Dr. W. Houston Collisson.[2]
- Charles Villiers Stanford's comic opera Shamus O'Brien is first performed.
Sport
Cricket
- International
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- February: Tim O'Brien becomes the first Irish captain of the England cricket team in a match won against South Africa at Port Elizabeth[3]
Football
- International
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- Winners: Distillery
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- Winners: Distillery 3 - 1 Glentoran
Tennis
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- Harold Mahony wins the gentleman's singles Championship
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- John Pius Boland wins gold medals in the men's singles and doubles at the first modern Summer Olympics in Athens (Greece)
Births
- 15 February - Arthur Shields, actor (died 1970).
- March - Martin Joseph Sheehan, soldier and Royal Air Service Observer in World War I, killed in action (died 1918).
- 4 April - Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet, diplomat and politician (died 1936).
- 24 April - F. R. Higgins, poet and theatre director (died 1941).
- 9 May - Austin Clarke, poet, playwright and writer (died 1974).
- 22 May - Cyril Fagan, astrologer (died 1970).
- 28 August - Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short story writer (died 1984).
- 10 November - Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans, later Mary, Lady Heath, aviator, athlete and writer (died 1939).
- 25 December - Sister Philippa Brazill, nurse in Australia (died 1988).
Full date unknown
- Monk Gibbon, poet and author (died 1987).
- Mark Killilea, Snr, Fianna Fáil TD, member of the Seanad (died 1970).
Deaths
- 10 January - Denis Dempsey, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1826).
- 3 February - Jane Wilde, poet ("Esperanza"; born 1821).
- 4 March - Peter Richard Kenrick, first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River (born 1806).
- 4 May - Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (born 1822).
- 18 May - Patrick Buckley, soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge in New Zealand (born 1841).
- 8 August - William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick, peer (born 1840).
- 10 August - Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile (born 1842).
- 15 August - Patrick Duggan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert (born 1813).
- 22 September - Edward Selby Smyth, British General, commanded Militia of Canada from 1874 to 1880 (born 1819).
- 1 November - Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (born 1862).
- 31 December - Leland Hone, cricketer (born 1853).
Full date unknown
- Canon James Goodman, Irish music collector (born 1828).
