1888 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1888 in Ireland.
Events
- January – the Chaine Memorial at Larne is completed.
- March – the Pan-Celtic Society is founded by W. B. Yeats.
- April – Holy Office issues a rescript to the Bishops of the Catholic Churchin Ireland to boycott the Campaign. This is ignored by many.
- 4 June–27 October – Irish Exhibition at Olympia (London).[1]
- 20 August – the Christian Brothers College is founded in Cork.
- September
- James Joyce enters the Clongowes Wood College as the school's youngest student.
- (approx. date) James Connolly deserts from his British Army regiment in Dublin and moves to Dundee.
- Irish members of the British House of Commons attempt to introduce an Irish Local Government Bill; however the Bill is opposed by Chief Secretary Arthur Balfour.
- Belfast is awarded city status by Queen Victoria.
- The Belfast Central Library is founded.
- A large flock of 110 Pallas's sandgrouse, a rare species of birds in Ireland, is recorded, one of the last known migrations witnessed in Ireland.
- W. B. Yeats joins the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society.
- Connaught Telegraphto employee T. H. Gillespie.
- Thomas Lindsay Buick becomes Secretary of the Gladstone branch of the Irish National League.
- Reverend fungi found in Ulster; however this document, as well as other research by Lett, is later lost.
Arts and literature
- 10 May – J. M. Synge arrives in the Aran Islandsfor his first visit.
- William Allingham publishes Laurence Bloomfield or rich and poor in Ireland.
- J. E. Gore publishes A revised catalogue of variable stars.
- William Henry Hulbert publishes Ireland Under Coercion.
- John Kells Ingram publishes A history of political economy and Essays in political economy.
- T. Dumbar Ingram publishes Two Chapters of Irish History.
- MacGregor Mathers publishes Qabbalah Unveiled.
- The Wooing of Emer.
- Spring Days.
- 'Esperanza' (Jane, Lady Wilde) publishes Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland, with sketches of the Irish past.
- Oscar Wilde publishes The Happy Prince.
- W. B. Yeats publishes Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry and writes Down by the Salley Gardens.
- Fossett's Circus begins touring Ireland nationally. It has continued without a break since then making it one of the oldest continuously touring circuses in the world.[2]
Sport
Cricket
- Several Irish Cricket Teams travel for their second tour of Canada and the United States.
Football
- Irish Junior Cup.
Gaelic Games
- Several .
- April – the First Cavan GAA All Ireland Finals is held in Birr.
- 7 April – a Cavan GAA football game between the Cavan Slashers and Anglo-Celtreporter as "...A disgrace, I must state that a more rowdy and disgraceful meeting I have never witnessed and the conduct of the party that came along with the Cavan club was simply what I could not wish to describe" and "The filthy expressions used by them towards the Rory O'Moores is simply not fit for publication".
- 30 April – the first Cavan GAA County Championship Final is played at Cavan as the Maghera McFinns defeat the Ballyconnell First Ulster's.
Golf
- The Royal Portrush Golf Club is founded as The County Club at Portrush, County Antrim.
- The Cork Golf Club is founded at Cork.
Horse racing
- The Leopardstown Racecourse is established by Captain George Quin becoming the first modern fully enclosed race track.
Births
- 6 January – Séumas Robinson, member of Irish Volunteers and Irish Republican Army (died 1961).
- 7 January – Eugene O'Callaghan, Bishop of Clogher 1943–1969 (died 1973).
- 8 January – Matthew Moore, actor (died 1960).
- 10 February – Michael Joseph MacManus, journalist.
- 13 February – ).
- 4 March – ).
- 10 March – Barry Fitzgerald, Academy Award-winning actor (died 1961).
- 8 May – W. F. Marshall, Presbyterian minister and poet (died 1959).
- 18 May – 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister, lawyer and judge (died 1950).
- 9 June – MP, third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (died 1973).
- 1 July – Linda Kearns MacWhinney, nurse, Sinn Féin member and politician (died 1951).
- 23 July – anaesthesiologist(died 1986).
- 12 August – Joseph McGrath, Sinn Féin and later Cumann na nGaedheal TD, racehorse owner and breeder (died 1966).
- 1 October – ).
- 16 October – Edmond Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, peer and soldier (died 1967).
- 24 October – ).
- 1 September – Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 at Guyencourt, France (died 1980).
- 25 September – Harold Jackson, cricketer (died 1979).
- 28 September – Secretary General of the League of Nations (died 1959).
- 29 September – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (died 1960).
- 19 October – Con Colbert, nationalist and rebel, took part in Easter Rising (executed 1916).
- 8 November – Gerald Robert O'Sullivan, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 at Gallipoli, Turkey (died 1915).
- 19 November – Seán Moylan, member Irish Volunteers, Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and Seanad Éireann member (died 1957).
- 7 December – Joyce Cary, novelist and artist (died 1957).
Deaths
- 10 January – Philip Cross, army surgeon, hanged in Cork Jail for the murder of his first wife (born 1825).
- 12 May – Bishop of Toronto (born 1816).
- 15 October – Frank O'Meara, artist (born 1853).
- 10 November – Thomas Henry Fitzgerald, farmer and politician in Queensland, Australia (born 1824).
- 22 November – John McGovern, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (born 1825).
- 1 December – John Divane, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (born 1822).
See also
References
- ^ "1888 Irish Exhibition". Exhibition Study Group. 1990. Archived from the original on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ "Fossett's Circus". Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ ISBN 0-86281-874-5.