1895 in Ireland

Events from the year 1895 in Ireland.

Events

22 March – the burned body of Bridget Cleary is discovered in County Tipperary; her husband, Michael, is subsequently convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter, his defence being a belief that he had killed a changeling left in his wife's place after she had been abducted by fairies.
3–5 April – Wilde v Queensberry: Oscar Wilde presses a criminal libel case in London against the Marquess of Queensberry, who is defended by Edward Carson. Wilde loses the case.
25 May – Regina v. Wilde: Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labour.
7 August – United Kingdom general election
Edward Carson is re-elected in a Trinity College Dublin seat and as senior MP becomes a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
Belfast Botanic Gardens becomes a public park when Belfast Corporation purchases the gardens from the Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society.

3 January – première of Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband in London.
14 February – première of Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, in London.
4 April – First Kinetoscope exhibition in Ireland advertised, at the Dublin premises of the Kinetoscope Company.