1871 in Ireland
Appearance
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).
- 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).
- 17 July - John Miller Andrews, second Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d.1956).
- 30 August - James Nathaniel Halbert, entomologist (d.1948).
- November - Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist politician and journalist (d.1937).
Deaths
- 2 January - Samuel Blackall, soldier, politician and second Governor of Queensland, Australia (b.1809).
- 15 December - John George, politician, judge and in 1859 Solicitor-General for Ireland (b.1804).
References
- ^ Edward Carson. A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981