1871 in Ireland
See also: 1870 in Ireland, other events of 1871, 1872 in Ireland
Events
- J. P. Mahaffy appointed to the Chair of Ancient History at Trinity College, Dublin at the age of 32[1].
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
- 8 January - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d.1940 in Northern Ireland|1940]]).
- 16 April - John Millington Synge, dramatist, poet and writer (d.1909).
- 17 July - John Miller Andrews, second Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d.1956).
- Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist politician and journalist (d.1937).
Deaths
References
- ^ Edward Carson. A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981