Events from the year 1895 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Football
Births
- 8 January â John Moyney, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 north of Broembeek, Belgium (died 1980).
- March â Joe Murphy, member of Irish Republican Army, (died 1920 on 76-day hunger strike during the Irish War of Independence).
- 25 May â Liam Mellowes, Sinn Féin politician, member of 1st Dáil (executed 1922 in Mountjoy Jail).
- 2 June â Seán McLoughlin, nationalist and communist activist (died 1960).
- 16 June â Warren Lewis, soldier and historian, brother of C. S. Lewis (died 1973).
- 28 July â John Charles McQuaid, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland (died 1973).
- 3 August â 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 â Phelim Calleary, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1974).
- 24 October â Lady Constance Mary Annesley, afterwards Constance Malleson, writer and actress (as Colette O'Niel) (died 1975).
- 10 December â Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (died 1975).
- Full date unknown â Max Dunn, poet (died 1963 in Australia).
Deaths
See also
References