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List of events
Events from the year 1890 in Ireland .
Events
30 April –
James Connolly marries
Lillie Reynolds in
Perth , Scotland.
20 June – the newly covered
St George's Market in
Belfast is opened to the public.
16 July - Academics Alfred Cort Haddon and Andrew Francis Dixon (Dixon later became Professor of Anatomy at
Trinity College Dublin ), remove the partial skeletal remains of 13 people, including their skulls, from St Colman's monastery on the island of
Inishbofin, County Galway (without the knowledge or permission of the community) for the purposes of studying
craniometry .
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July – the new
Guildhall (Victoria Hall) in
Derry , financed by
The Honourable The Irish Society , is opened.
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17 November – Captain
Willy O'Shea divorces his wife,
Kitty , and wins custody of their children.
Charles Stewart Parnell is named as the
co-respondent .
25 November – despite his personal problems Parnell is re-elected as leader of the
Irish Parliamentary Party .
26 November –
Prime Minister
William Ewart Gladstone announces that as long as Parnell remains as leader of the Party, the next general election will be lost and
Home Rule for Ireland will be impossible.
6 December – after five days of discussion and argument about Parnell's leadership, 44 members of the Irish Parliamentary Party walk out of the meeting and withdraw from the Party, most going on to form the
Irish National Federation . Parnell is left with only 28 supporters in the
Irish National League .
Seapoint tragedy:
James O'Connor 's wife and four of their daughters die after eating contaminated
mussels .
Albert Bridge, Belfast is completed.
Dublin Museum of Science and Art opens.
The
parish church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in
Ennis becomes
pro-cathedral for the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe .
The
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland is founded.
A study finds that the most common
Irish surnames are Murphy, Kelly, O'Sullivan and Walshe.
Arts and literature
Sport
International
8 February Wales 5–2 Ireland (in
Shrewsbury )
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15 March Ireland 1–9 England (in
Belfast )
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29 March Ireland 1–4 Scotland (in Belfast)
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Births
12 February –
Conn Ward ,
Fianna Fáil politician (died
1966 ).
23 March –
James Gogarty , rebel in
Easter Rising , first known I.R.B. casualty of the Irish War of Independence (died
1921 ).
11 April –
Debroy Somers , bandleader (died 1952 in London).
17 May –
David P. Tyndall , businessman (died
1970 ).
1 June –
Edward Hutchinson Synge , theoretical physicist (died
1957 )
11 July –
William O'Dwyer , judge, District Attorney and 100th
Mayor of New York City (died
1964 ).
6 September –
Brinsley MacNamara , born John Weldon, novelist and playwright (died
1963 ).
12 October –
Bill Britton , athlete and British Empire Games medallist (died
1965 ).
16 October –
Michael Collins ,
Revolutionary and Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army, Cabinet Minister (assassinated
1922 ).
30 October –
Arthur Bateman , cricketer (died
1918 ).
1 December –
The Hon. Mary Westenra, later Mary Bailey , aviator (died 1960).
25 December –
Robert Burgess , rugby union player (killed in action 1915 in France).
31 December –
Frederick Crowley ,
Fianna Fáil politician (died
1945 ).
Deaths
12 January –
Anthony Lefroy , Irish
Conservative Party
MP for
Longford in the
United Kingdom Parliament (born
1800 ).
14 March –
C. P. Meehan , priest, poet and writer (born
1812 ).
4 April –
Charles Joseph Alleyn , lawyer and political figure in
Quebec (born
1817 ).
12 April –
James P. Boyd , businessman and politician in
Ontario (born
1826 ).
27 May –
James O'Connor , first Archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha (born
1823 ).
29 May –
Samuel Mullen , bookseller (born
1828 ).
20 July –
Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet , art collector and MP (born
1818 ).
10 August –
John Boyle O'Reilly , poet and novelist (born
1844 ).
18 September –
Dion Boucicault , actor and playwright (born c.1820).
Full date unknown –
John Coghlan , public works engineer in
Argentina (born
1824 ).
See also
References