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Events from the year 1893 in Ireland.

Events

  • January – the National Labour League, a predecessor of the Irish Land and Labour Association, is founded in Kanturk, County Cork.
  • 19 January – Michael Logue is created a cardinal, the first Archbishop of Armagh to be so elevated.
  • February – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom W. E. Gladstone introduces his second Home Rule Bill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, where it is passed. The biggest opposition to Home Rule manifests itself in Ulster, particularly amongst Protestants.
  • 26 April – Edward Carson is called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple
  • 31 July – Douglas Hyde, Eoin MacNeill, Eugene O'Growney and Thomas O'Neill Russell establish the Gaelic League to encourage the preservation of Irish culture, with Hyde becoming its first president.
  • 8 September – Gladstone's second Home Rule Bill is rejected by the House of Lords.

Arts and literature

  • 19 April – Oscar Wilde stages A Woman of No Importance in London.
  • December – W. B. Yeats publishes The Celtic Twilight, giving a popular name to the Irish Literary Revival.
  • Douglas Hyde publishes Love Songs of Connacht.

Sport

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Football

  • ;International
  • :25 February England 6–1 Ireland (in Birmingham)
  • :25 March Scotland 6–1 Ireland (in Glasgow)