1885 in Ireland

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Events

• The Munster & Leinster Bank, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks, begins operations following the collapse of the Munster Bank.
• The Railway Tavern in Belfast is renovated and reopened as the Crown Liquor Saloon.
• The distinctive twin spires are added to St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast, which had been dedicated in 1860.
• Jacob's open a biscuit bakery.

Arts and literature

• Katharine Tynan publishes Louise de la Valliere, and Other Poems^[1]

Sport

Football

• International

28 February England 4 - 0 Ireland (in Manchester)^[2]

14 March Scotland 8 - 2 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[2]

11 April Ireland 2 - 8 Wales (in Belfast)^[2]

• Irish Cup

Winners: Distillery 2 - 0 Limavady Alexander

Births

• 12 January - Thomas Ashe, took part in the Easter Rising, died following forcible feeding while on hunger strike (died 1917).
• 12 January - Maire O'Neill, actress (died 1952).
• 18 January - George Meldon, cricketer (died 1951).
• 19 January - Joseph Connolly, Fianna Fáil politician (died 1961).
• 8 February - Frederick William Hall, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium (died 1915).
• 28 February - Robert Quigg, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme (died 1955).
• 25 May - Gerald Boland, founder-member of Fianna Fáil, served as Minister for Posts & Telegraphs, Minister for Lands and Minister for Justice (died 1973).
• 30 May - Thomas Hughes, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Guillemont, France (died 1942).
• 9 June - William Coffey, cricketer.
• 24 September - Shane Leslie, diplomat and writer (died 1971).
• 25 December - Jimmy Gardner, boxer.

Full date unknown

• Patrick Belton, Fianna Fáil and Cumann na nGaedheal TD, President of the anti-communist Irish Christian Front (died 1945).
• Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy, peer (died 1963).
• Michael Staines, Sinn Féin TD, member of 1st Dáil, first Commissioner of the Garda Síochána (died 1955).

Deaths

• 1 February - Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (born 1812).
• 13 February - Barry Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore, nobleman and officer (born 1859).
• 30 July - John O'Kane Murray, physician and author (born 1847).
• 18 August - Francis Hincks, politician in Canada (born 1807).
• 31 October - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, politician and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1811).
• 26 November - Thomas Andrews, chemist and physicist (born 1813).

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