1871 in Ireland

← 1870 1869 1868 1867 1866 1871 in Ireland → 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	1871 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1871 List of years in Ireland

Events

• J. P. Mahaffy appointed to the Chair of Ancient History at Trinity College, Dublin at the age of 32.
• 16 June - The Westmeath Act is enacted allowing arrest and detention without trial.

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).
• 6 October - Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (b.1812).
• 15 December - John George, politician, judge and in 1859 Solicitor-General for Ireland (b.1804).

Full date unknown

• Thomas Deane, architect (b.1792).