1889 in Ireland - Events

Events

• June — Edward Carson becomes the youngest QC in Ireland (aged 35).
• 16 July — Ballymena and Larne Railway taken over by Belfast and Northern Counties Railway.
• 24 December — Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell is accused of adultery after Captain Willy O'Shea files for divorce on the grounds his wife Kitty O'Shea had an affair with Parnell. The scandal will later result in the dismissal of Parnell as leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
• A religious group of the Order of Carmelites leave Dublin for the United States at the invitation of the New York Archbishop later establishing the Provence of St. Elias.
• The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is founded.
• The Land League builds a house for recently evicted tenant Tom Kelly in Kiltimagh, County Mayo.
• Poet William Butler Yeats is introduced by John O'Leary to Irish nationalist Maude Gonne.
• Union leader James Connolly is married to Lillie Reynolds in Dublin. Connolly later deserts the British Army and flees to Perth, Scotland.
• Industrialist Horace Plunkett returns to Ireland after his father's death.
• The Tropical Ravine House in Belfast Botanic Gardens is built by head gardener Charles McKimm.
• Foundation stone laid for the Albert Bridge, Belfast, by Queen Victoria’s grandson, Prince Albert Victor.
• The Cork County Southern Star weekly newspaper is established in Skibbereen, incorporating The Skibbereen Eagle (1857).