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Events from the year1892 in Ireland.

• June
  • Ulster Unionists hold a huge convention inBelfast at which they solemnly swear that "We will not have Home Rule".^[1]
  • The Knights of the Plough, a farm labourers' body, predecessor of theIrish Land and Labour Association, is founded by Benjamin Pellin inNarraghmore, County Kildare.^[2]
• 1 July –Edward Carson sworn in asSolicitor-General for Ireland.^[1]
• 9 July – in the General Election,Edward Carson, standing as aLiberal Unionist, is elected to one of twoTrinity College Dublin seats.^[1]
• 21 August – theRoman CatholicSt. Macartan's Cathedral, Monaghan, is dedicated.
• 25 November –Douglas Hyde lectures to theNational Literary Society onThe Necessity for de-anglicising the Irish People, a precursor to the founding of theGaelic League.^[3]
• TheBelfast Labour Party, the firstSocialist Party in Ireland, is established inBelfast.
• Free primary schooling and compulsory education up to the age of 14 is introduced through theIrish Education Act.
• The Roman CatholicBallina Cathedral is completed after more than sixty years.

• The Irish Literary Society is founded byW. B. Yeats,T. W. Rolleston andCharles Gavan Duffy in London, and theNational Literary Society by Yeats inDublin withDouglas Hyde as its first president.^[4]
• 22 February –Oscar Wilde stagesLady Windermere's Fan in London.

• International

  27 February Wales 1–1 Ireland (in Bangor)^[5]

  5 March Ireland 0–2 England (inBelfast)^[5]

  19 March Ireland 2–3 Scotland (in Belfast)^[5]

• Irish League

  Winners:Linfield

• Irish Cup

  Winners:Linfield 7–0The Black Watch

• Derry Olympic becomes only the second non-Belfast team in theIrish Football League, but only lasted one season.
• TheLeinster Football Association is founded as the game's popularity is no longer confined to Ulster.
• The Oval football ground inBelfast is opened as the home ofGlentoran.

• The first Irish Golf Championship is held.
• Lahinch Golf Club is founded.

• 1 January –P. J. Ruttledge,Sinn Féin, thenFianna Fáil,TD and Cabinet Minister (died1952).
• 10 January –Leo Whelan, painter (died1956).
• 2 February –Alan McKibbin, businessman andUlster Unionist Party MP (died1958).
• 5 March –Tom Hales,Irish Republican Armyvolunteer inAnglo-Irish War andIrish Civil War (died1966).
• 4 April –Tom Jameson, cricketer (died1965).
• 4 May –Willie Hough,Limerick hurler (died1976).
• 6 May –Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster, peer and gambler (died1976).
• 7 June –Kevin O'Higgins, Minister for Justice (assassinated byIrish Republican Army1927).
• 15 August –Derrick Hall, cricketer (died1947).
• 17 September –Seán Óg Murphy,Cork hurler,Gaelic Athletic Association administrator (died1956).
• 20 September –Patricia Collinge, actress and writer (died1974).
• 15 October –James Kempster, cricketer (died1975).
• 14 November –Nora Connolly O'Brien, political activist, daughter ofJames Connolly (born in Edinburgh; died1981).
• 26 November –Mike McTigue, boxer,light heavyweight champion of the world 1923–1925 (died1966).
• 24 December –Claude Nunney, Canadian Expeditionary Force soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1918 on the Drocourt-Queant Line, France (born in Hastings; died of wounds1918).

  Full date unknown

  • Eamon Bulfin, Irish republican (born in Argentina; died1968).
  • Eamon Martin, a founder ofFianna Éireann and anIrish Volunteer fighting in theEaster Rising (died1971).

• 26 January –Bernard Diamond, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 atBolandshahr, India (born1827).
• 3 February – "Roaring"Hugh Hanna,Evangelical preacher (born1821).
• 5 February –John Hogan, businessman andUnited States Representative fromMissouri (born1805).
• 29 February –John Lucas, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1861 in New Zealand (born1826).
• 8 May –James Thomson,engineer andphysicist (born1822).
• 17 May –William Walsh,U.S. Congressman inMaryland (born1828).
• 29 May –Richard Charles Mayne, British admiral, explorer and MP (born1835).
• 31 May –John Kean, businessman and politician inOntario (born1820).
• 2 June –Robert Templeton, naturalist, artist andentomologist (born1802).
• August –John Doyle, soldier at theCharge of the Light Brigade (b. c1828).
• 29 October –William Harnett, painter (born1848).
• 30 November –Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer (born1828).

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