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List of events
Events from the year 1891 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Gaelic games
Golf
Births
- 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, participant in
Easter Rising (
executed by firing squad in
Kilmainham Jail
1916).
- 25 February –
Edward Daly, participant in
Easter Rising (executed by firing squad
1916).
- 17 March –
Emily Anderson, British
Foreign Office cryptanalyst, scholar of German and musicologist (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).
- 16 April –
Richard Saul, British Royal Air Force air vice marshal (died
1965 in the United Kingdom).
- 13 May –
Patrick Hogan,
Sinn Féin and
Cumann na nGaedheal
TD (died
1936).
- 20 June –
John A. Costello, barrister,
Attorney-General,
Fine Gael
TD and twice
Taoiseach (died
1976).
- 3 July
- 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, participant in
Easter Rising, brother of
Patrick Pearse (executed
1916).
- 6 December –
James Ryan,
Fianna Fáil
TD Member of
1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (died
1970).
- 24 December –
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 at the
siege of Sevastopoll in the
Crimean War (1854) (born
1835).
- 15 June –
James Patrick Mahon,
Irish nationalist
politician and international
mercenary (born
1800).
- 6 October –
Charles Stewart Parnell,
political leader (born
1846).
- 28 November –
William James Lendrim, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry at the
siege of Sevastopoll in the
Crimean War (1855) (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).
See also
References