Events from the year 1892 in Ireland.
Events
- June
- Ulster Unionists hold a huge convention in Belfast at which they solemnly swear that "We will not have Home Rule".
- The Knights of the Plough, a farm labourers' body, predecessor of the Irish Land and Labour Association, is founded by Benjamin Pellin in Narraghmore, County Kildare.
- 1 July â Edward Carson sworn in as Solicitor-General for Ireland.
- 9 July â in the General Election, Edward Carson, standing as a Liberal Unionist, is elected to one of two Trinity College Dublin seats.
- 21 August â the Roman Catholic St. Macartan's Cathedral, Monaghan, is dedicated.
- 25 November â Douglas Hyde lectures to the National Literary Society on The Necessity for de-anglicising the Irish People, a precursor to the founding of the Gaelic League.
- The Belfast Labour Party, the first Socialist Party in Ireland, is established in Belfast.
- Free primary schooling and compulsory education up to the age of 14 is introduced through the Irish Education Act.
- The Roman Catholic Ballina Cathedral is completed after more than sixty years.
Arts and literature
Sport
Football
- ;International
- :27 February Wales 1âÂÂ1 Ireland (in Bangor)
- :5 March Ireland 0âÂÂ2 England (in Belfast)
- :19 March Ireland 2âÂÂ3 Scotland (in Belfast)
Golf
Births
- 1 January â P. J. Ruttledge, Sinn Féin, then Fianna Fáil, TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1952).
- 10 January â Leo Whelan, painter (died 1956).
- 2 February â Alan McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (died 1958).
- 5 March â Tom Hales, Irish Republican Army volunteer in Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War (died 1966).
- 4 April â Tom Jameson, cricketer (died 1965).
- 4 May â Willie Hough, Limerick hurler (died 1976).
- 6 May â Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster, peer and gambler (died 1976).
- 7 June â Kevin O'Higgins, Minister for Justice (assassinated by Irish Republican Army 1927).
- 15 August â Derrick Hall, cricketer (died 1947).
- 17 September â Seán ÃÂg Murphy, Cork hurler, Gaelic Athletic Association administrator (died 1956).
- 20 September â Patricia Collinge, actress and writer (died 1974).
- 15 October â James Kempster, cricketer (died 1975).
- 14 November â Nora Connolly O'Brien, political activist, daughter of James Connolly (born in Edinburgh; died 1981).
- 26 November â Mike McTigue, boxer, light heavyweight champion of the world 1923âÂÂ1925 (died 1966).
- 24 December â Claude Nunney, Canadian Expeditionary Force soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1918 on the Drocourt-Queant Line, France (born in Hastings; died of wounds 1918).
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Eamon Bulfin, Irish republican (born in Argentina; died 1968).
- :*Eamon Martin, a founder of Fianna ÃÂireann and an Irish Volunteer fighting in the Easter Rising (died 1971).
Deaths
- 26 January â Bernard Diamond, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Bolandshahr, India (born 1827).
- 3 February â "Roaring" Hugh Hanna, Evangelical preacher (born 1821).
- 5 February â John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri (born 1805).
- 29 February â John Lucas, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1861 in New Zealand (born 1826).
- 8 May â James Thomson, engineer and physicist (born 1822).
- 17 May â William Walsh, U.S. Congressman in Maryland (born 1828).
- 29 May â Richard Charles Mayne, British admiral, explorer and MP (born 1835).
- 31 May â John Kean, businessman and politician in Ontario (born 1820).
- 2 June â Robert Templeton, naturalist, artist and entomologist (born 1802).
- August â John Doyle, soldier at the Charge of the Light Brigade (b. c1828).
- 29 October â William Harnett, painter (born 1848).
- 30 November â Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer (born 1828).
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