# 1898 in Ireland

Events from the year 1898 in Ireland.

## Events

* By March – Dr. John F. Colohan of Dublin imports the first petrol driven car into Ireland, a Benz Velo.
* 6 July – Guglielmo Marconi conducts a test radio telegraph transmission for Lloyd's between Ballycastle, County Antrim, and Rathlin Island.
* 12 August – James Connolly launches the first issue of the Workers' Republic newsletter.
* September – Tom Clarke is released after serving 15 years in Pentonville Prison.
* 20 October – George Curzon is created Baron Curzon of Kedleston, the last appointment to the Peerage of Ireland.
* The Local Government (Ireland) Act is introduced. It establishes popularly elected local authorities and gives qualified women a vote for the first time. County Tipperary is divided administratively into North Tipperary (county town: Nenagh) and South Tipperary (county town: Clonmel).
* The Mary Immaculate College in Limerick is founded to train Roman Catholic national school teachers.
* The Gaelic League holds its first feis at Macroom, County Cork.
* Work starts on the building of Belfast City Hall.
* Donegal Carpets is established.

## Arts and literature

* Eleanor Hull publishes The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature, being a collection of stories relating to the hero Cuchullin, translated from the Irish by various scholars.
* Peadar Ua Laoghaire's story Séadna begins serialisation as the first Irish language novel (published in book form 1904).
* Oscar Wilde publishes The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

## Sport
### Football
#### International

    19 February Wales 0–1 Ireland (in Llandudno)
    5 March Ireland 2–3 England (in Belfast)
    26 March Ireland 0–3 Scotland (in Belfast)

#### Irish League

    Winners: Linfield
* Irish Cup
    Winners: Linfield 2–0 St Columb's Hall Celtic

## 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)
* 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)