Events from the year 1893 in Ireland. Events January – the National Labour League, a predecessor of the Irish Land and Labour Association, is founded in Kanturk, County Cork. 19 January – Michael Logue is created a cardinal, the first Archbishop of Armagh to be so elevated. February – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom W. E. Gladstone introduces his second Home Rule Bill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, where it is passed. The biggest opposition to Home Rule manifests itself in Ulster, particularly amongst Protestants. 26 April – Edward Carson is called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple 19 May – the neoclassical Roman Catholic St Mel's cathedral, Longford (foundation stone laid 1840 and opened for worship in 1856), is consecrated. 31 July – Douglas Hyde, Eoin MacNeill, Eugene O'Growney and Thomas O'Neill Russell establish the Gaelic League to encourage the preservation of Irish culture, with Hyde becoming its first president. 8 September – Gladstone's second Home Rule Bill is rejected by the House of Lords. Arts and literature 19 April – Oscar Wilde stages A Woman of No Importance in London. December – William Butler Yeats publishes The Celtic Twilight, giving a popular name to the Irish Literary Revival. Douglas Hyde publishes Love Songs of Connacht. Sport Football International 25 February England 6–1 Ireland (in Birmingham) 25 March Scotland 6–1 Ireland (in Glasgow) 5 April Ireland 4–3 Wales (in Belfast) Irish League Winners: Linfield Irish Cup Winners: Linfield 5–1 Cliftonville Derry Olympic becomes defunct after only one season in the Irish Football League. Golf Ormeau Golf Club in Belfast and Ballybunion Golf Club are formed. Hockey Irish Hockey Union was formed on 6 February. Births 26 January – Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of Michael Collins (died 1945) 5 February – John Lymbrick Esmonde, soldier, Fine Gael TD (died 1958). 22 February – Peadar O'Donnell, Irish Republican socialist, Marxist activist and writer (died 1986). 6 March – Denis Rolleston Gwynn, journalist, author and professor of modern Irish history (died 1973). 4 April – Dick McKee, Irish Republican Army member in Easter Rising (shot by Crown forces 1920). 14 May – George McElroy, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force pilot during World War I (killed in action 1918). 9 June – Cathal O'Shannon, politician, trade unionist and journalist (died 1969). 14 June – Séamus Burke, Sinn Féin TD, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedheal