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.

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).