1898 in Ireland

Events from the year 1898 in Ireland.

Events

By March – Dr. John F. Colohan of Dublin imports the first petrol driven car into Ireland, a Benz Velo.
6 July – Guglielmo Marconi conducts a test radio telegraph transmission for Lloyd's between Ballycastle, County Antrim, and Rathlin Island.
12 August – James Connolly launches the first issue of the Workers' Republic newsletter.
September – Tom Clarke is released after serving 15 years in Pentonville Prison.
20 October – George Curzon is created Baron Curzon of Kedleston, the last appointment to the Peerage of Ireland.
The Local Government (Ireland) Act is introduced. It establishes popularly elected local authorities and gives qualified women a vote for the first time. County Tipperary is divided administratively into North Tipperary and South Tipperary.
The Mary Immaculate College in Limerick is founded to train Roman Catholic national school teachers.
The Gaelic League holds its first feis at Macroom, County Cork.
Work starts on the building of Belfast City Hall.
Donegal Carpets is established.

Eleanor Hull publishes .
Peadar Ua Laoghaire's story oldwikisource:Séadna begins serialisation as the first Irish language novel.
Oscar Wilde publishes ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol.''

6 January – James Fitzmaurice, pilot and aviation pioneer
7 February – Reginald N. Webster, businessman in America and Thoroughbred racehorse owner
13 February – Frank Aiken, Fianna Fáil TD and founding member, Cabinet Minister and Tánaiste
28 February – Hugh O'Flaherty, Catholic Church|Catholic] priest, saved about 4,000 Allied soldiers and Jews in the Vatican during World War II
18 April – Patrick Hennessy, industrialist
6 June – Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet
4 October – Charles McCausland, cricketer
1 November – James Foley, cricketer
25 November – E. Chambré Hardman, photographer
29 November – C. S. Lewis, novelist, author of The Chronicles of Narnia
Full date unknown – Liam Deasy, Irish Republican Army officer in the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War

12 January – Daniel Connor, convict transported to Western Australia, businessman
25 January – Frederick Dobson Middleton, British general noted for his service particularly in the North-West Rebellion
14 February – Arthur Gwynn, cricketer and rugby player
13 March – Richard Quain, physician
17 March – John Thomas Ball, lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1875–1881
24 March – George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian
28 March – Sir John Arnott, businessman
1 April – Samuel Davidson, biblical scholar
11 May – Dalton McCarthy, lawyer and politician in Canada
29 June – William Knox Leet, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Inhlobana, Zululand, South Africa
13 August – Charles Frederick Houghton, soldier and politician in Canada
24 November – George James Allman, naturalist, Emeritus Professor of Natural History in Edinburgh
1 December – Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton