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List of events
Events from the year 1898 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
- International
- 19 February Wales 0–1 Ireland (in
Llandudno)
[4]
- 5 March Ireland 2–3 England (in
Belfast)
[4]
- 26 March Ireland 0–3 Scotland (in Belfast)
[4]
Births
- 6 January –
James Fitzmaurice, pilot and aviation pioneer (died
1965)
- 7 February –
Reginald N. Webster, businessman in America and
Thoroughbred
racehorse owner (died
1983)
- 13 February –
Frank Aiken,
Fianna Fáil
TD and founding member, Cabinet Minister and
Tánaiste (died
1983)
- 28 February –
Hugh O'Flaherty,
Catholic
priest, saved about 4,000 Allied soldiers and
Jews in the
Vatican during World War II (died
1963)
- 18 April –
Patrick Hennessy, industrialist (died
1981)
- 6 June –
Ninette de Valois, founder of the
Royal Ballet (died
2001)
- 4 October –
Charles McCausland, cricketer (died
1965)
- 1 November –
James Foley, cricketer (died
1969)
- 25 November –
E. Chambré Hardman, photographer (died
1988)
- 29 November –
C. S. Lewis, novelist, author of
The Chronicles of Narnia (died
1963)
[5]
- Full date unknown –
Liam Deasy,
Irish Republican Army officer in the
Irish War of Independence and the
Irish Civil War (died
1974)
Deaths
- 12 January –
Daniel Connor,
convict
transported to
Western Australia, businessman (born
1831)
- 25 January –
Frederick Dobson Middleton, British general noted for his service particularly in the
North-West Rebellion (born
1825)
- 14 February –
Arthur Gwynn, cricketer and rugby player (born
1874)
- 13 March –
Richard Quain, physician (born
1816)
- 17 March –
John Thomas Ball, lawyer, politician and
Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1875–1881 (born
1815)
- 24 March –
George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian (born
1843)
- 28 March – Sir
John Arnott, businessman (born
1814 in Scotland)
- 1 April –
Samuel Davidson, biblical scholar (born
1806)
- 11 May –
Dalton McCarthy, lawyer and politician in Canada (born
1836)
- 29 June –
William Knox Leet, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at
Inhlobana, Zululand, South Africa (born
1833)
- 13 August –
Charles Frederick Houghton, soldier and politician in Canada (born
1839)
- 24 November –
George James Allman, naturalist, Emeritus Professor of Natural History in
Edinburgh (born
1812)
- 1 December –
Charles Magill, member of the
1st Canadian Parliament and
mayor of
Hamilton (born
1816)
See also
References