1891 in Ireland

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See also:	1891 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1891 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1891 in Ireland.

Events

• March - Anti-Parnellites form the Irish National Federation and win seats in Sligo and Carlow.
• June - Charles Stewart Parnell marries Kitty O'Shea in Sussex.
• 6 October - Charles Stewart Parnell dies. Up to 200,000 people attend the funeral of the 'Uncrowned King of Ireland.'
• The Balfour Land Act makes more funds available for land purchase and sets up the Congested Districts Board for Ireland.
• The Irish Daily Independent newspaper is founded. It becomes the Irish Independent in 1905.
• James Stephens, founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, returns home to Ireland after 25 years in exile.
• Michael Davitt, standing as an anti-Parnellite candidate, is defeated by John Redmond in a Waterford by-election.

Arts and literature

• April - Oscar Wilde publishes The Picture of Dorian Gray in book form.
• October - 9-year-old James Joyce writes a poem in memory of Parnell later entitled Et tu, Healy which his father has printed as a broadside.^[1]
• Standish James O'Grady publishes Finn and his Companions.

Sport

Football

• International

7 February Ireland 7 - 2 Wales (in Belfast)^[2]

7 March England 6 - 1 Ireland (in Wolverhampton)^[2]

March Scotland 2 - 1 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[2]

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield (first ever winners)

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 4 - 2 Ulster

• Belfast Celtic F.C. is founded.
• Derry Olympic is founded. It joins the Irish Football League the next year, but only lasts one season.

Gaelic Games

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
  • Kerry 2-3 : 1-5 Wexford
• All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
  • Dublin 2-1 : 1-9 Cork

Golf

• 13 November - Golfing Union of Ireland established at a meeting in Belfast.
• Fortwilliam Golf Club in Belfast and Limerick Golf Club are founded.

Births

January to June

• 18 February - John M. O'Sullivan, Cumann na nGaedheal TD and cabinet Minister (died 1948).
• 21 February - Harry Colley, Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member (died 1972).
• 21 February - Seán Heuston, Fianna Éireann member, took part in the Easter Rising (executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail 1916).
• 25 February - Edward Daly, took part in Easter Rising (executed by firing squad 1916).
• March - Emily Anderson, British Foreign Office official and scholar of German (died 1962).
• 10 April - Kaye Don, racing driver (died 1981).
• 11 April - Vincent McNamara, Ireland rugby union player (killed in action on Gallipoli Campaign 1915).
• 20 June - John A. Costello, barrister, Attorney-General, Fine Gael TD and twice Taoiseach (died 1976).

July to December

• 3 July
  • Arthur Blair-White, cricketer (died 1975).
  • Bridget Dowling, Adolf Hitler's sister-in-law via her marriage to Alois Hitler, Jr. (died 1969 in the United States).
• 6 August - Billy Gillespie, soccer player (died 1981).
• 23 October - John Caffrey, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 near La Brique, France (died 1953).
• 1 November - Peter J. Ward, Sinn Féin (later Cumann na nGaedheal) TD, member 1st Dáil (died 1970).
• 15 November - Willie Pearse, took part in the Easter Rising, executed, brother of Patrick Pearse (died 1916).
• 6 December - James Ryan, Fianna Fáil TD Member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (died 1970).

Full date unknown

• Patrick Hogan, Sinn Féin and Cumann na nGaedheal TD (died 1936).
• Joseph O'Doherty, Sinn Féin MP, Fianna Fáil TD and Seanad member (died 1979).

Deaths

• 5 May - William Connor Magee, Anglican clergyman, Archbishop of York (born 1821).
• 18 May - Thomas Grady, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at Sebastopol, the Crimea (born 1835).
• 15 June - James Patrick Mahon, Irish nationalist politician and international mercenary (born 1800).
• 6 October - Charles Stewart Parnell, political leader.
• 28 November - William James Lendrim, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the Siege of Sevastopol, Crimea (born 1830).
• 12 December - Alexander Workman, politician in Canada and Mayor of Ottawa (born 1798).
• 13 December - William Gorman Wills, dramatist and painter (born 1828).

Full date unknown

• Augustus Nicholas Burke, artist (born 1838).
• James O'Connor, first Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Diocese of Omaha (born 1823).

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