1888 in Ireland

1888
in
Ireland

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
See also: 1888 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1888
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1888 in Ireland.

Events

Arts and literature

Sport

Cricket

  • Several Irish Cricket Teams travel for their second tour of Canada and the United States.

Football

Gaelic Games

  • Several Cavan GAA football teams are formed including the Kildallan Wolfe Tones, Castletara, Butlersbridge Emmets, Drumlane sons of O'Connell, Ballintemple Bob Sextons, Ballinagh Erins Hope, Bawnboy Gallowglasses, Milltown Owen Roes, Arva Michael Davitts, and the Cavan Slashers.
  • April – the First Cavan GAA All Ireland Finals is held in Birr.
  • 7 April – a Cavan GAA football game between the Cavan Slashers and Belturbet Rory O'Moores is reported by an Anglo-Celt reporter as "...A disgrace, I must state that a more rowdy and disgraceful meeting I have never witnessed and the conduct of the party that came along with the Cavan club was simply what I could not wish to describe" and "The filthy expressions used by them towards the Rory O'Moores is simply not fit for publication".
  • 30 April – the first Cavan GAA County Championship Final is played at Cavan as the Maghera McFinns defeat the Ballyconnell First Ulster's.

Golf

Horse racing

  • The Leopardstown Racecourse is established by Captain George Quin becoming the first modern fully enclosed race track.

Births

Desmond FitzGerald

Deaths

References

  1. "1888 Irish Exhibition". Exhibition Study Group. 1990. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  2. "Fossett's Circus". Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  3. Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.
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