# 1895 in Ireland

Events from the year 1895 in Ireland.

## Events

* 22 March – the burned body of Bridget Cleary is discovered in County Tipperary; her husband, Michael, is subsequently convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter, his defence being a belief that he had killed a changeling left in his wife's place after she had been abducted by fairies.
* 3–5 April – Wilde v Queensberry: Oscar Wilde presses a criminal libel case in London against the Marquess of Queensberry, who is defended by Edward Carson. Wilde loses the case.
* 25 May – Regina v. Wilde: Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labour.
* 7 August – United Kingdom general election
** Edward Carson is re-elected in a Trinity College Dublin seat and as senior MP becomes a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
** Michael Davitt enters the British House of Commons as the elected Member of Parliament for South Mayo. He has been refused entry on two previous attempts.
* 23 December – Grand Opera House in Belfast is opened.
* 24 December – Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster: the Kingstown Life-boat capsizes on service: all fifteen crew are lost.
* Belfast Botanic Gardens becomes a public park when Belfast Corporation purchases the gardens from the Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society.

## Arts and literature

* 3 January – première of Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband in London.
* 14 February – première of Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, in London.
* 4 April – First Kinetoscope exhibition in Ireland advertised, at the Dublin premises of the Kinetoscope Company.

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

    9 March England 9–0 Ireland (in Derby)
    16 March Ireland 2–2 Wales (in Belfast)
    30 March Scotland 3–1 Ireland (in Glasgow)

#### Irish League

    Winners: Linfield

#### Irish Cup

    Winners: Linfield 10–1 Bohemians
* 1 May – Dundela F.C. is founded in Belfast.
* c. September – Shelbourne F.C. is founded in the south Dublin suburb of Ringsend by a group of seven individuals, including James Rowan (St Margaret Place) and two Wall brothers Felix and Michael (Bath Avenue Place).

## Births

* 8 January – John Moyney, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 north of Broembeek, Belgium (died 1980).
* March – Joe Murphy, member of Irish Republican Army, (died 1920 on 76-day hunger strike during the Irish War of Independence).
* 25 May – Liam Mellowes, Sinn Féin politician, member of 1st Dáil (executed 1922 in Mountjoy Jail).
* 2 June – Seán McLoughlin, nationalist and communist activist (died 1960).
* 16 June – Warren Lewis, soldier and historian, brother of C. S. Lewis (died 1973).
* 28 July – John Charles McQuaid, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland (died 1973).
* 3 August – James Samuel Emerson, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry (killed 1917 on the Hindenburg Line north of La Vacquerie, France).
* 3 October – Phelim Calleary, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1974).
* 24 October – Lady Constance Mary Annesley, afterwards Constance Malleson, writer and actress (as Colette O'Niel) (died 1975).
* 10 December – Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (died 1975).
* Full date unknown – Max Dunn, poet (died 1963 in Australia).

## Deaths

* 5 February – Robert Montresor Rogers, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (born 1834).
* 11 May – Patrick Carlin, Victoria Cross recipient for gallantry in 1858 in India (born 1832).
* 14 August – Thomas Hovenden, artist and teacher (born 1840).
* 12 October – Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander, hymn-writer and poet (born 1818).
* 26 November – George Edward Dobson, zoologist, photographer and army surgeon (born 1848).