1898 in Ireland

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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.^[1]
• September - Tom Clarke released^[1] after serving 15 years in Pentonville Prison.
• 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 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).^[2]
• Oscar Wilde publishes The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Sport

Football

• International

19 February Wales 0 - 1 Ireland (in Llandudno)^[3]

5 March Ireland 2 - 3 England (in Belfast)^[3]

26 March Ireland 0 - 3 Scotland (in Belfast)^[3]

• 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).
• 29 November - C. S. Lewis, novelist and 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).
• E. Chambré Hardman, photographer (died 1988).
• Patricia Lynch, children's writer (died 1972).

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).
• 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).

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