1896 in Ireland
List of events
Events from the year 1896 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Cricket
Field hockey
Tennis
Births
- 15 February – Arthur Shields, actor (died 1970).
- March – Martin Joseph Sheehan, soldier and Royal Air Service Observer in World War I, killed in action (died 1918).
- 4 April – Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet, diplomat and politician (died 1936).
- 24 April – F. R. Higgins, poet and theatre director (died 1941).
- 9 May – Austin Clarke, poet, playwright and writer (died 1974).
- 22 May – Cyril Fagan, astrologer (died 1970).
- 28 August – Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short story writer (died 1984).
- 10 November – Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans, later Mary, Lady Heath, aviator, athlete and writer (died 1939).
- 25 December – Sister Philippa Brazill, nurse in Australia (died 1988).
- Full date unknown
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Deaths
- 10 January – Denis Dempsey, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1826).
- 3 February – Jane Wilde, poet ("Esperanza"; born 1821).
- 4 March – Peter Richard Kenrick, first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River (born 1806).
- 4 May – Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (born 1822).
- 18 May – Patrick Buckley, soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge in New Zealand (born 1841).
- 8 August – William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick, peer (born 1840).
- 10 August – Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile (born 1842).
- 15 August – Patrick Duggan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert (born 1813).
- 22 September – Edward Selby Smyth, British General, commanded Militia of Canada from 1874 to 1880 (born 1819).
- 1 November – Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (born 1862).
- 31 December – Leland Hone, cricketer (born 1853).
- Full date unknown
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See also
References
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