1892 in Ireland

Events

• June
• * Ulster Unionists hold a huge convention in Belfast at which they solemnly swear that "We will not have Home Rule".
• * The Knights of the Plough, a farm labourers' body, predecessor of the Irish Land and Labour Association, is founded by Benjamin Pellin in Narraghmore, County Kildare.
• 1 July – Edward Carson sworn in as Solicitor-General for Ireland.
• 9 July – in the General Election, Edward Carson, standing as a Liberal Unionist, is elected to one of two Trinity College, Dublin seats.
• 21 August – the Roman Catholic St. Macartan's Cathedral, Monaghan, is dedicated.
• 25 November – Douglas Hyde lectures to the National Literary Society on The Necessity for de-anglicising the Irish People, a precursor to the founding of the Gaelic League.
• The Belfast Labour Party, the first Socialist Party in Ireland, is established in Belfast.
• Free primary schooling and compulsory education up to the age of 14 is introduced through the Irish Education Act.
• The Roman Catholic Ballina Cathedral is completed after more than sixty years.

  Arts and literature

• The Irish Literary Society is founded by W. B. Yeats, T. W. Rolleston and Charles Gavan Duffy in London, and the National Literary Society by Yeats in Dublin with Douglas Hyde as its first president.
• 22 February – Oscar Wilde stages Lady Windermere's Fan in London.

  Sport

Football

• ;International
• :27 February Wales 1–1 Ireland
• :5 March Ireland 0–2 England
• :19 March Ireland 2–3 Scotland
• ;Irish League
• :Winners: Linfield
• ;Irish Cup
• :Winners: Linfield 7–0 The Black Watch
• Derry Olympic becomes only the second non-Belfast team in the Irish Football League, but only lasted one season.
• The Leinster Football Association is founded as the game's popularity is no longer confined to Ulster.
• The Oval football ground in Belfast is opened as the home of Glentoran.

  Golf

• The first Irish Golf Championship is held.
• Lahinch Golf Club is founded.

  Births

• 1 January – P. J. Ruttledge, Sinn Féin, then Fianna Fáil, TD and Cabinet Minister.
• 10 January – Leo Whelan, painter.
• 2 February – Alan McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP.
• 5 March – Tom Hales, Irish Republican Army volunteer in Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War.
• 4 April – Tom Jameson, cricketer.
• 4 May – Willie Hough, Limerick hurler.
• 6 May – Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster, peer and gambler.
• 7 June – Kevin O'Higgins, Minister for Justice.
• 15 August – Derrick Hall, cricketer.
• 17 September – Seán Óg Murphy, Cork hurler, Gaelic Athletic Association administrator.
• 20 September – Patricia Collinge, actress and writer.
• 15 October – James Kempster, cricketer.
• 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.
• 14 November – Nora Connolly O'Brien, political activist, daughter of James Connolly.
• 26 November – Mike McTigue, boxer, light heavyweight champion of the world 1923–1925.
• 24 December – Claude Nunney, Canadian Expeditionary Force soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1918 on the Drocourt-Queant Line, France.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Eamon Bulfin, Irish republican.
• :*Eamon Martin, a founder of Fianna Éireann and an Irish Volunteer fighting in the Easter Rising.

  Deaths

• 26 January – Bernard Diamond, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Bolandshahr, India.
• 3 February – "Roaring" Hugh Hanna, Evangelical preacher.
• 5 February – John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri.
• 29 February – John Lucas, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1861 in New Zealand.
• 8 May – James Thomson, engineer and physicist.
• 17 May – William Walsh, U.S. Congressman in Maryland.
• 29 May – Richard Charles Mayne, British admiral, explorer and MP.
• 31 May – John Kean, businessman and politician in Ontario.
• 2 June – Robert Templeton, naturalist, artist and entomologist.
• August – John Doyle, soldier at the Charge of the Light Brigade.
• 29 October – William Harnett, painter.
• 30 November – Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer.