Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach (died 1971). 9 September – Arland Ussher, English-born academic, essayist and translator (died 1980). 22 September – Mick Gill, Galway and Dublin hurler (died 1980). 25 October – Micheál MacLiammóir, born Alfred Willmore, actor and dramatist (born in London; died 1978). 26 November – Jacko Heaslip, cricketer (died 1966). 10 December – Garrett Howard, Dublin and Limerick hurler (died 1995). Full date unknown Tommy Coleman, Irish volunteer (died 1988). Patrick Giles, Fine Gael TD (died 1965). Paddy McLogan, Sinn Féin President (died 1964). David Neligan, policeman, "The Spy in the Castle" for Michael Collins (died 1983). Eugene O'Mahony, entomologist and museum curator (died 1951). Deaths 16 March – Alexander Balloch Grosart, Presbyterian minister and literary editor (born 1827 in Scotland) 19 March – Patrick Walsh, journalist, politician and mayor of Augusta, Georgia (born 1840). 16 May – Frederick McCoy, palaeontologist and museum administrator in Australia (born 1817). 5 June – Margaret Anna Cusack, nun, writer and founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace (born 1832). 18 October – Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (born 1863). 8 November – Thomas Newenham Deane, architect (born 1828). 17 December – Walter Shanly, civil engineer, author, businessman and politician in Canada (born 1817). References 1890s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 19th century in Ireland Ireland