1892 in Ireland
Events Arts and literature Sport Football 27 February Wales 1 - 1 Ireland (in Bangor)[3] 5 March Ireland 0 - 2 England (in Belfast )[3] 19 March Ireland 2 - 3 Scotland (in Belfast)[3] Winners: Linfield Winners: Linfield 7 - 0 The Black Watch Golf The first Irish Golf Championship is held. Births 2 February - Alan McKibbin , businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (d.1958 ). 5 March - Tom Hales , Irish Republican Army volunteer , fought in Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War (d.1966 ). 4 April - Tom Jameson , cricketer (d.1965 ). 6 May - Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster , peer and gambler (d.1976 ). 7 June - Kevin O'Higgins , Minister for Justice, assassinated by the Irish Republican Army (d.1927 ). 15 August - Derrick Hall , cricketer (d.1947 ). 20 September - Patricia Collinge , actress and writer (d.1974 ). 15 October - James Kempster , cricketer (d.1975 ). 20 October - Eoin O'Duffy , first leader of Fine Gael and the Blueshirts , leader of Irish volunteers on the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War (d.1944 ). 26 November - Mike McTigue , boxer, light heavyweight champion of the world from 1923-1925 (d.1966 ). 24 December - Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney , recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1918 on the Drocourt-Queant Line, France (d.1918 ). Full date unknown Deaths 26 January - Bernard Diamond , soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Bolandshahr , India (b.1827 ). 5 February - John Hogan , businessman and United States Representative from Missouri (b.1805 ). 29 February - John Lucas , soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1861 in New Zealand (b.1827 ). 8 May - James Thomson , engineer and physicist (b.1822 ). 17 May - William Walsh , U.S. Congressman in Maryland (b.1828 ). 29 May - Richard Charles Mayne , British admiral, explorer and MP (b.1835 ). 31 May - John Kean , businessman and politician in Ontario (b.1820 ). August - John Doyle , soldier at the Charge of the Light Brigade (b. c1828). 29 October - William Harnett , painter (b.1848 ). 30 November - Fenton John Anthony Hort , theologian and writer (b.1828 ). Full date unknown References
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