Ireland

Isabella Maria Susan Tod, suffragette, died in Belfast

Isabella Maria Susan Tod (18 May 1836 – 8 December 1896) was born in Edinburh, was a Scottish-born campaigner for women’s civil and political equality, active in the north of Ireland.

Lady Mary Heath, pioneer aviator and athlete, is born

Mary, Lady Heath (17 November 1896 – 9 May 1939) was an Irish aviator and began life as Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans in Knockaderry, County Limerick, near the town of Newcastle West.

Birth of Liam OFlaherty

Archibald Joseph Cronin, born

Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist.

The City and Suburban Ground now known as Croke Park, hosts a soccer match for the first time

Austin Clarke, considered to be the greatest poet of his generation after Yeats, is born

A demonstration of the cinématographe is held in Dublin at Dan Lowreys Star of Erin theatre

Cinematograph, kinematograph, or Animatograph is an early term for several types of motion picture film mechanisms. The name was used for movie cameras as well as film projectors, or for complete systems that also provided means to print films (such as the Cinématographe Lumière).

An Irishman wins an Olympic gold medal for the first time, when John Pius Boland triumphs in tennis

John Mary Pius Boland (16 September 1870 – 17 March 1958) was an Irish Nationalist politician, and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party for South Kerry from 1900 to 1918. He was also noteworthy as a gold medallist tennis player at the first modern Olympics.

Horace Plunkett and W.E.H. Lecky, support John Redmonds plea for clemency for Irish political prisoners

Lady Jane Wilde (Spiranza), poet, nationalist and the mother of Oscar, dies in London

Lady Jane Wilde, known by her pen name “Speranza,” was a notable Irish poet, nationalist, and the mother of Oscar Wilde, one of the most famous playwrights and literary figures of the late 19th century. She passed away in London on February 3, 1896.