Events from the year 1891 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Football
- International
- :7 February Ireland 7âÂÂ2 Wales (in Belfast)
- :7 March England 6âÂÂ1 Ireland (in Wolverhampton)
- :March Scotland 2âÂÂ1 Ireland (in Glasgow)
Gaelic games
Golf
Births
- 18 February â John M. O'Sullivan, Cumann na nGaedheal TD and cabinet Minister (died 1948).
- 21 February â Harry Colley, Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member (died 1972).
- 21 February â Seán Heuston, Fianna ÃÂireann member, participant in Easter Rising (executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail 1916).
- 25 February â Edward Daly, participant in Easter Rising (executed by firing squad 1916).
- 17 March â Emily Anderson, British Foreign Office cryptanalyst, scholar of German and musicologist (died 1962).
- 10 April â Kaye Don, racing driver (died 1981).
- 11 April â Vincent McNamara, Ireland rugby union player (killed in action on Gallipoli Campaign 1915).
- 16 April â Richard Saul, British Royal Air Force air vice marshal (died 1965 in the United Kingdom).
- 13 May â Patrick Hogan, Sinn Féin and Cumann na nGaedheal TD (died 1936).
- 20 June â John A. Costello, barrister, Attorney-General, Fine Gael TD and twice Taoiseach (died 1976).
- 3 July
- Arthur Blair-White, cricketer (died 1975).
- Bridget Dowling, Adolf Hitler's sister-in-law via her marriage to Alois Hitler, Jr. (died 1969 in the United States).
- 6 August â Billy Gillespie, soccer player (died 1981).
- 23 October â John Caffrey, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 near La Brique, France (died 1953).
- 1 November â Peter J. Ward, Sinn Féin (later Cumann na nGaedheal) TD, member 1st Dáil (died 1970).
- 15 November â Willie Pearse, participant in Easter Rising, brother of Patrick Pearse (executed 1916).
- 6 December â James Ryan, Fianna Fáil TD Member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (died 1970).
- 24 December â Joseph O'Doherty, Sinn Féin MP, Fianna Fáil TD and Seanad member (died 1979).
Deaths
- 5 May â William Connor Magee, Anglican clergyman, Archbishop of York (born 1821).
- 18 May â Thomas Grady, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the siege of Sevastopoll in the Crimean War (1854) (born 1835).
- 15 June â James Patrick Mahon, Irish nationalist politician and international mercenary (born 1800).
- 6 October â Charles Stewart Parnell, political leader (born 1846).
- 28 November â William James Lendrim, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the siege of Sevastopoll in the Crimean War (1855) (born 1830).
- 12 December â Alexander Workman, politician in Canada and mayor of Ottawa (born 1798).
- 13 December â William Gorman Wills, dramatist and painter (born 1828).
- Full date unknown â Augustus Nicholas Burke, artist (born 1838).
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