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*[[1 March]] - [[Anthony Coningham Sterling]], [[British Army]] officer and [[historian]] (b.[[1805 in Ireland|1805]]). |
*[[1 March]] - [[Anthony Coningham Sterling]], [[British Army]] officer and [[historian]] (b.[[1805 in Ireland|1805]]). |
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*[[6 October]] - [[Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl]], peer (b.[[1812 in Ireland|1812]]). |
*[[6 October]] - [[Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl]], peer (b.[[1812 in Ireland|1812]]). |
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*[[30 November]] - [[John T. Mills]], lawyer and Supreme Court Justice for the [[Republic of Texas]] (b.[[1817 in Ireland|1817]]). |
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*[[15 December]] - [[John George (Solicitor General)|John George]], politician, judge and in 1859 [[Solicitor-General for Ireland]] (b.[[1804 in Ireland|1804]]). |
*[[15 December]] - [[John George (Solicitor General)|John George]], politician, judge and in 1859 [[Solicitor-General for Ireland]] (b.[[1804 in Ireland|1804]]). |
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Events
- J. P. Mahaffy appointed to the Chair of Ancient History at Trinity College, Dublin at the age of 32[1].
- 16 June - The Westmeath Act is enacted allowing arrest and detention without trial.
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
- 8 January - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d.1940).
- 14 January - A. M. Sullivan, lawyer (d.1959).
- 16 January - Valentine McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee, Labour MP in the United Kingdom (d.1953).
- 19 January - Frederick Barton Maurice, soldier, military correspondent, writer and academic, founded the British Legion in 1920 (d.1951).
- 16 April - John Millington Synge, dramatist, poet and writer (d.1909).
- 18 April - Frederick Field, Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord (d.1945).
- 17 July - John Miller Andrews, second Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d.1956).
- 30 August - James Nathaniel Halbert, entomologist (d.1948).
- 30 November - Thomas O'Donnell, barrister, judge, Irish Nationalist, MP (d.1943).
- November - Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist politician and journalist (d.1937).
Full date unknown
- Elinor Darwin, engraver and painter (d.1954).
Deaths
- 2 January - Samuel Blackall, soldier, politician and second Governor of Queensland, Australia (b.1809).
- 3 February - James Sheridan Muspratt, research chemist and teacher (b.1821).
- 20 February - Paul Kane, painter in Canada (b.1810).
- 1 March - Anthony Coningham Sterling, British Army officer and historian (b.1805).
- 6 October - Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (b.1812).
- 30 November - John T. Mills, lawyer and Supreme Court Justice for the Republic of Texas (b.1817).
- 15 December - John George, politician, judge and in 1859 Solicitor-General for Ireland (b.1804).
Full date unknown
- Thomas Deane, architect (b.1792).
References
- ^ Edward Carson. A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981