1886 in Ireland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s;
See also:	1886 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1886 ; List of years in Ireland

Events

January - Ulster Protestant Unionists begin to lobby against the Irish Home Rule Bill, establishing the Ulster Loyal Anti-Repeal Union in Belfast.
March - Prime Minister William Gladstone announces his support for Irish Home Rule.
8 April - Gladstone introduces the Irish Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons.^[1] During the debates on the Bill
- Financial Secretary to the Treasury H.H. Fowler states his support for the Bill which in his words would bring about a "real Union—not an act of Parliament Union—but a moral Union, a Union of heart and soul between two Sister Nations".
- Lord Randolph Churchill voices his opposition with the slogan "Ulster will fight, Ulster will be right".
8 June - The First Home Rule Bill fails to pass the British Parliament on a vote of 343-313.
June - Protestants celebrate the defeat of the Home Rule Bill, leading to renewed rioting on the streets of Belfast and the deaths of seven people, with many more injured.^[2]
12 June - In a statement to Parliament, Gladstone calls for a general election and, with the dissolution of Parliament, an official election is held the next month.
12 July–mid-September - Beginning with the Orange Institution parades and continuing sporadically throughout the summer, clashes take place between Catholics and Protestants, and also between Loyalists and police. Thirteen people are killed in a weekend of serious rioting, with an official death toll of 31 people over the period.^[2]
October - The first tenant farmers are evicted during the first year of the Plan of Campaign.
30 November - Maud Gonne's father dies leaving her a substantial inheritance ensuring her financial independence.^[3]
St Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin is officially elevated to Pro-cathedral status.
Eason & Son, booksellers and stationers, established in Dublin.
The 1886 Tramways Act allows the Board of Works to grant loans to railway companies including £54,400 to the West Clare Railway one of the first railways to be built in western Ireland.
Charles Cunningham Boycott, who supposedly gave rise to the eponymous word, leaves his land agent's post in Ireland.^[4]
J. M. Synge joins the Dublin Naturalist's Field Club.

Arts and literature

December - W. B. Yeats poem The Stolen Child is published.
Yeats's verse play Mosada
Edward Dowden's The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley is published.
George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man and A Drama in Muslin are published.
Emily Lawless's Hurrish is published.
T. P. O'Connor's The Parnell Movement is published.
Dublin University professor G.T. Stokes' Ireland and the Celtic Church is published.
Rev. J. A. Wylie's History of the Scottish Nation, a valuable resource of Celtic Ireland, begins publication.
Dublin Lodge of the Theosophical Society is founded.

Sport

Athletics

December - The Dublin University Harriers Club is founded in an effort to promote cross country running.

Chess

March 18 - The Irish Chess Association is invited to a match against the Belfast Chess Club in an advertisement in the Belfast Newsletter and Northern Whig.
September 20-October 1 - The Irish Chess Association holds a national tournament, consisting of an even and handicap tournament, as Richard Barnett (although W.K. Pollock gained a full score) defeats British Chessmasters John Blackburne and Amos Burn filling the vacancy by former champion Porterfield Rynd.

Football

International

27 February Wales 5 - 0 Ireland (in Wrexham)^[5]

12 March Ireland 1 - 6 England (in Belfast)^[5]

20 March Ireland 2 - 7 Scotland (in Belfast)^[5]

Irish Cup

Winners: Distillery 1 - 0 Limavady Alexander

Gaelic Games

The first Gaelic Athletic Association match in the United States is held between Kerry and Galway in Boston, Massachusetts.

Polo

Polo player John Watson wins the Irish Dublin Cup.
The British polo team, including two players from the All Ireland Polo Club, win the American Newport Cup.

Births

January to June

9 February - Edwin Maxwell, actor (d.1948).
21 March - Oscar Traynor, Fianna Fáil politician (d.1963).
25 March - Jack McAuliffe, boxer (d.1937).
3 April - David Nelson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1914 at Néry, France (d.1918).
10 May - Richard Mulcahy, Chief of Staff, TD, Cabinet Minister and former leader of Fine Gael (d.1971).
5 June - Alexander McCabe, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, Cumann na nGaedheal TD (d.1972).
24 June - George Shiels, dramatist (d.1949).

July to December

13 July - Edward J. Flanagan, popularly known as Father Flanagan founder of Boys Town in Nebraska (d.1948).
28 August - Pat Hone, cricketer (d.1976).
4 October - Lennox Robinson, dramatist, poet and theatre director and producer (d.1958).
10 October - Louis Meldon, cricketer (d.1956).
8 December - James Geoghegan, Fianna Fáil TD, Minister for Justice, Attorney General of Ireland and Justice of the Supreme Court (d.1951).
12 December - Owen Moore, actor (d.1939).

Full date unknown

Jack Beattie, politician and trade unionist.
Patrick Hogan, Irish Labour Party, TD, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (d.1969).
Frank MacDermot, barrister, soldier, banker and politician (d.1975).
W. F. McCoy, Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland (d.1976).
Alice Milligan, author.

Deaths

12 March - Trevor Chute, British Army officer (b.1816).
4 May - James Muspratt, chemical manufacturer in Britain (b.1793).
11 June - James Alipius Goold, Roman Catholic Bishop and Archbishop of Melbourne (b.1812).
11 June - Thomas Francis Hendricken, first Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island (b.1827).
9 August - Samuel Ferguson, poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant (b.1810).
10 October - Joseph M. Scriven, poet and philanthropist (b.1820).
10 December - Abraham Dowdney, United States Representative from New York and officer in the Union army in the American Civil War (b.1841).
19 December - Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons, physician and politician (b.1826).
30 December - George Fletcher Moore, explorer and writer (b.1798).

Full date unknown

Andrew Nicholl, artist (b.1804).

References

^ Stewart, A.T.Q. (1981). Edward Carson. Gill's Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 0717110753.
^ ^a ^b "Parades and Marches - Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
^ Toomey, Deirdre (2004). "Gonne, (Edith) Maud (1866–1953)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
^ Norgate, G. Le G. (2004). "Boycott, Charles Cunningham (1832–1897)'". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 150. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.

[1] Stewart, A.T.Q. (1981). Edward Carson. Gill's Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 0717110753.

[CA-2] "Parades and Marches - Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.

[3] Toomey, Deirdre (2004). "Gonne, (Edith) Maud (1866–1953)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-02-08.

[4] Norgate, G. Le G. (2004). "Boycott, Charles Cunningham (1832–1897)'". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-02-08.

[DH-5] Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 150. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.

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