Events from the year 1896 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Cricket
Football
Field hockey
Tennis
Births
- 15 February â Arthur Shields, actor (died 1970).
- March â Martin Joseph Sheehan, soldier and Royal Air Service Observer in World War I, killed in action (died 1918).
- 4 April â Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet, diplomat and politician (died 1936).
- 24 April â F. R. Higgins, poet and theatre director (died 1941).
- 9 May â Austin Clarke, poet, playwright and writer (died 1974).
- 22 May â Cyril Fagan, astrologer (died 1970).
- 28 August â Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short story writer (died 1984).
- 17 September â Oscar Heron, Irish World War I flying ace (died 1933).
- 10 November â Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans, later Mary, Lady Heath, aviator, athlete and writer (died 1939).
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Monk Gibbon, poet and author (died 1987).
- :*Fiona Plunkett, republican (died 1977).
Deaths
- 10 January â Denis Dempsey, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1826).
- 3 February â Jane Wilde, poet ("Esperanza"; born 1821).
- 4 March â Peter Richard Kenrick, first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River (born 1806).
- 4 May â Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (born 1822).
- 18 May â Patrick Buckley, soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge in New Zealand (born 1841).
- 8 August â William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick, peer (born 1840).
- 10 August â Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile (born 1842).
- 15 August â Patrick Duggan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert (born 1813).
- 22 September â Edward Selby Smyth, British General, commanded Militia of Canada from 1874 to 1880 (born 1819).
- 1 November â Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (born 1862).
- 31 December â Leland Hone, cricketer (born 1853).
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Canon James Goodman, Irish music collector (born 1828).
See also
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