1893 in Ireland

Events

• January – the National Labour League, a predecessor of the Irish Land and Labour Association, is founded in Kanturk, County Cork.
• 19 January – Michael Logue is created a cardinal, the first Archbishop of Armagh to be so elevated.
• February – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom W. E. Gladstone introduces his second Home Rule Bill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, where it is passed. The biggest opposition to Home Rule manifests itself in Ulster, particularly amongst Protestants.
• 26 April – Edward Carson is called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple
• 19 May – the neoclassical Roman Catholic St Mel's cathedral, Longford, is consecrated.
• 31 July – Douglas Hyde, Eoin MacNeill, Eugene O'Growney and Thomas O'Neill Russell establish the Gaelic League to encourage the preservation of Irish culture, with Hyde becoming its first president.
• 8 September – Gladstone's second Home Rule Bill is rejected by the House of Lords.
• The Girls' Brigade is founded in Dublin, origin of the international Christian youth organisation.

Arts and literature

• 19 April – Oscar Wilde stages A Woman of No Importance in London.
• December – W. B. Yeats publishes The Celtic Twilight, giving a popular name to the Irish Literary Revival.
• Douglas Hyde publishes ''Love Songs of Connacht.''

Sport

Football

• ;International
• :25 February England 6–1 Ireland
• :25 March Scotland 6–1 Ireland
• :5 April Ireland 4–3 Wales
• ;Irish League
• :Winners: Linfield
• ;Irish Cup
• :Winners: Linfield 5–1 Cliftonville
• Derry Olympic becomes defunct after only one season in the Irish Football League.

Golf

• Ormeau Golf Club in Belfast and Ballybunion Golf Club are formed.

Hockey

• Irish Hockey Union was formed on 6 February.

Births

• 26 January – Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of Michael Collins
• 5 February – John Lymbrick Esmonde, soldier, Fine Gael TD.
• 22 February – Peadar O'Donnell, Irish Republican socialist, Marxist activist and writer.
• 6 March – Denis Rolleston Gwynn, journalist, author and professor of modern Irish history.
• 4 April – Dick McKee, Irish Republican Army member in Easter Rising.
• 14 May – George McElroy, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force pilot during World War I.
• 9 June – Cathal O'Shannon, politician, trade unionist and journalist.
• 14 June – Séamus Burke, Sinn Féin TD, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedheal and later Fine Gael.
• 26 July – E. R. Dodds, classical scholar.
• 10 August – Mick O'Brien, soccer player and manager.
• 30 September – Seán MacEoin, major general, Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister.
• 13 October – Seán Russell, Irish republican and a chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army.
• 26 October – Thomas MacGreevy, poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland.
• 1 November – Neal Blaney, Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member.
• 9 November – Liam Lynch, commanding general of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army during the Irish Civil War.
• 20 December
• *Eddie Duffy, traditional Irish musician.
• *Billy McCandless, footballer and football manager.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Tomás Bairéad, journalist and author.
• :*Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author.
• :*Mick Kenny, Galway hurler.
• :*Harry Midgley, Northern Ireland Labour Party member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and alderman of Belfast.

Deaths

• 3 March – Hugh Nelson, politician in Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia.
• 16 April – William Davis Ardagh, lawyer, judge and politician in Canada.
• 27 April – John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand.
• 5 September – Mike Cleary, boxer.
• 8 November – Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer.
• 28 December – James Donnelly, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher.