1895 in Ireland

Events

• 22 March – the burned body of Bridget Cleary is discovered in County Tipperary; her husband, Michael, is subsequently convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter, his defence being a belief that he had killed a changeling left in his wife's place after she had been abducted by fairies.
• 3–5 April – Wilde v Queensberry: Oscar Wilde presses a criminal libel case in London against the Marquess of Queensberry, who is defended by Edward Carson. Wilde loses the case.
• 25 May – Regina v. Wilde: Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labour.
• 7 August – United Kingdom general election
• *Edward Carson is re-elected in a Trinity College, Dublin seat and as senior MP becomes a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
• *Michael Davitt enters the British House of Commons as the elected Member of Parliament for South Mayo. He has been refused entry on two previous attempts.
• 23 December – Grand Opera House in Belfast is opened.
• 24 December – Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster: the Kingstown Life-boat capsizes on service: all fifteen crew are lost.
• Belfast Botanic Gardens becomes a public park when Belfast Corporation purchases the gardens from the Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society.

  Arts and literature

• 3 January – première of Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband in London.
• 14 February – première of Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, in London.

  Sport

Football

• ;International
• :9 March England 9–0 Ireland
• :16 March Ireland 2–2 Wales
• :30 March Scotland 3–1 Ireland
• ;Irish League
• :Winners: Linfield
• ;Irish Cup
• :Winners: Linfield 10–1 Bohemians
• 1 May – Dundela F.C. is founded in Belfast.
• c. September – Shelbourne F.C. is founded in the south Dublin suburb of Ringsend by a group of seven individuals, including James Rowan and two Wall brothers Felix and Michael.

  Births

• 8 January – John Moyney, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 north of Broembeek, Belgium.
• March – Joe Murphy, member of Irish Republican Army,.
• 25 May – Liam Mellowes, Sinn Féin politician, member of 1st Dáil.
• 2 June – Seán McLoughlin, nationalist and communist activist.
• 16 June – Warren Lewis, soldier and historian, brother of C. S. Lewis.
• 28 July – John Charles McQuaid, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland.
• 3 August – James Samuel Emerson, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry.
• 3 October – Phelim Calleary, Fianna Fáil TD.
• 24 October – Lady Constance Mary Annesley, afterwards Constance Malleson, writer and actress .
• 10 December – Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury.
• ;Full date unknown
• :* Max Dunn, poet.
• :* Florence O'Donoghue, historian and Irish Republican Army intelligence officer.

  Deaths

• 5 February – Robert Montresor Rogers, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China.
• 11 May – Patrick Carlin, Victoria Cross recipient for gallantry in 1858 in India.
• 14 August – Thomas Hovenden, artist and teacher.
• 12 October – Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander, hymn-writer and poet.
• 26 November – George Edward Dobson, zoologist, photographer and army surgeon.