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1867 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1867 in Ireland. 11 February – Abortive Fenian attempt to seize Chester Castle,5 March – Fenian Rising in County Dublin, County Cork, County Limerick, County Tipperary and County Clare. 12 July – Despite the Party Processions Acts, the Orange Order parades from Bangor to Newtownards in County Down and it is organised by William Johnston and about 30,000 take part. August – Irish Republican Brotherhood convention at Manchester appoints Colonel Thomas J. Kelly to succeed James Stephens,11 September – Thomas J. Kelly and Timothy Deasy are arrested in Manchester. 18 September – Rescue of Kelly and Deasy from a van in Manchester. 12 October –62 Fenians are among the last group of convicts to suffer penal transportation as the convict ship Hougoumont departs from Portsmouth on an 89-day passage to Western Australia. 23 November – William Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael OBrien,13 December – Clerkenwell explosion at Clerkenwell Prison in London during a Fenian escape attempt,12 local residents are killed. Royal Irish Constabulary granted its Royal prefix by Queen Victoria,1 January – Thomas Westropp Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal member of the Seanad, Cathaoirleach of Seanad. 25 January – Dolway Walkington, Irish national rugby union captain,9 February – James Douglas, journalist. 10 April – George William Russell, critic, poet and artist,19 April – James Cullen, priest and mathematician. 13 May – Thomas Gann, doctor, archaeologist and writer,15 May – Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary. 17 June – John Robert Gregg, creator of Gregg Shorthand,11 August – Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin, barrister and politician. 10 November – John Henry Patterson, soldier, hunter and writer,16 December – Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary and writer. 26 December – Ella Young, poet, undated – Cathal OByrne, singer, poet and writer. 7 February - William Dargan, engineer and railway builder,22 February - Daniel Devlin, businessman and City Chamberlain in New York (born 1814. 12 April - Robert Bell, journalist and writer,20 April - John Lyons, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea. 17 September - Francis Blackburne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland,23 September - Richard W. Dowling, victorious commander at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass in the American Civil War. 31 October - William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer and builder of the Leviathan of Parsonstown,10 December - Edward Whelan, politician, one of the Fathers of the Canadian Confederation
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1866 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1866 in Ireland. 28 January - The Midland Great Western Railway opens to Westport railway station,22 June - Archbishop Cullen is elevated to the cardinalate as the first Irish Cardinal. 13 July - The SS Great Eastern sets out from Valentia Island on the attempt to lay the transatlantic telegraph cable. Robert Halpin is master and William Thomson technical consultant,14 October - St Peters Church, Belfast, later to become the Roman Catholic Cathedral, is dedicated, although the building is incomplete. Maziere Brady retires as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, an office to which he was appointed in 1846, the first modern Irish Derby, created by the 3rd Earl of Howth, the 3rd Marquess of Drogheda and the 3rd Earl of Charlemont, is run at the Curragh Racecourse. The Ulster Yacht Club is revived at Bangor, County Down, on the initiative of Frederick Temple Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin,5 February - Domhnall Ua Buachalla, member of 1st Dáil, Fianna Fáil TD, last Governor-General of the Irish Free State. February - Michael Egan, trade unionist, city councillor and Cumann na nGaedheal TD.15 June - Charles Wood,13 July - Emily Winifred Dickson, gynaecologist. 16 August - Dora Sigerson, poet,1 November - Cheiro, born William John Warner, astrologer. 3 December - Ethna Carbery, born Anna Johnston, writer,7 December - Maude Delap, marine biologist December - Thomas Byrne, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1898 at the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan. Éamon a Búrc, tailor and seanchaí, bridget Sullivan, domestic housemaid for Borden family of Fall River, Massachusetts. 5 January - Augustus Warren Baldwin, naval officer and political figure in Upper Canada,11 January - Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, actor. 17 January - George Petrie, painter, musician, antiquary,4 March - Alexander Campbell, religious leader in Britain and the United States. 18 May - Francis Sylvester Mahony, humorist and poet,26 October - John Kinder Labatt, brewer in Canada. 26 October - Patrick McHale, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, full date unknown - Edward Eagar, lawyer and criminal transported to Australia, politician
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1865 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1865 in Ireland. 23 July — The SS Great Eastern sets out from Valentia Island on the first attempt to lay the telegraph cable. Work begins on the building of the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial to Queen Victorias late Prince Consort, Prince Albert. 9 May International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures opens in Dublin 23 December — Gustavus Vaughan Brooke concludes a farewell season in Belfast, samuel Ferguson publishes his collected poems Lays of the Western Gael. 6 February — Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer,16 March — Patsy Donovan, Major League Baseball player and manager. 17 March — Patrick Joseph Sullivan, mayor of Casper, Wyoming,20 April — James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922. 4 May — Charles A. Callis, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,7 May — John MacBride, nationalist rebel and Easter Rising leader. 8 May — Charles FitzClarence, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 near Mafeking,10 June — Dermod OBrien, painter. 13 June — William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist,18 June — Henry Allan, painter. 24 June — Harry Plunket Greene, baritone,15 July — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper and publishing magnate 16 July — George A. Birmingham, novelist 29 August — Thomas Kent, nationalist rebel. 4 September — Alice Milligan, nationalist and poet,16 October — Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, British Army commander in World War I, later Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Field Marshal. 12 November — Herbert Trench, poet, robert Henry Woods, Irish Unionist MP.1 April — John Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart, Conservative politician. 23 May — Benjamin Holmes, businessman and politician in Quebec,14 July — Nathaniel Burslem, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China. 25 July — Dr James Barry, military surgeon, revealed on death to be a woman,31 August — John Farrell, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade. 2 September — William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
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1864 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1864 in Ireland. 1 January - Civil registry of births, deaths and marriages replaces parish church registers,30 January - Opening of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. May - Theobald Jones presents his Report on the progress made in collecting the Irish lichens to the Natural History Society of Dublin, foundation of the Munster Bank, later rescued as the Munster & Leinster Bank, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks. Sheridan Le Fanu publishes the Gothic locked room mystery-thriller Uncle Silas,31 January - Matilda Cullen Knowles, lichenologist. 13 February - Stephen Gwynn, journalist, writer, poet,22 February - Michael Donohoe, Democrat U. S. 4 March - Daniel Mannix, Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years,5 May - Henry Wilson, British Field Marshal and Conservative Party politician. 11 May - Ethel Lilian Voynich, née Boole, novelist,16 July - Joseph OMara, opera singer. 1 September - Roger Casement, British diplomat, nationalist, poet and Irish revolutionary,19 October - Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, peer and soldier. 11 November - John Meredith, Australian Army Brigadier General,22 November - Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet, Unionist MP and Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland 1925-1937. 9 December - Willoughby Hamilton, tennis player, Wimbledon Champion in 1890,21 December - James Whiteside McCay, Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments. 10 January - Nicholas Callan, priest and scientist,20 May - John George Bowes, businessman and political figure in Canada East. 18 June - William Smith OBrien, nationalist,4 July - Thomas Colley Grattan, writer. 23 July - Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow,27 July - Joseph Patrick Haverty, painter. 21 November - Charles McNally, Bishop of Clogher 1844-1864,30 November - Patrick Cleburne, major general in Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Franklin. 8 December - George Boole, mathematician,23 December - James Bronterre OBrien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist. Heron, Denis Caulfield, Ireland in 1864, Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, retrieved 13 August 2014
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1863 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1863 in Ireland. 2 March - The Ulster Railway, which began construction in 1839,10 March - Riots in Cork, related to nationalist unrest. 21 August - American clipper Anglo Saxon westbound is captured and burned by Confederate privateer Florida off Old Head of Kinsale,28 November - First edition of The Irish People. Belleek Pottery begins to produce Parian Ware, sheridan Le Fanu publishes The House by the Churchyard. 1 February - George Carew, 4th Baron Carew,17 March - P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of San Francisco. 31 March - Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman,2 April - Mabel Cahill, tennis player. 9 April - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ships doctor and author,12 August - Margaretta Eagar, nurse for the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and memoirist. 25 August - Eugene OGrowney, priest and scholar,7 September - Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Royal Navy hydrographic surveyor, murdered by Irish Republican Army. 26 September - Caesar Litton Falkiner, Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer,24 November - Frederick Thomas Trouton, physicist responsible for Troutons Rule. F Elrington Ball, author and legal historian,1 January - Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at Little Inkerman. 16 February - Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar,21 February - Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action. 6 May - Robert Arbuthnot, British military officer,7 July - William Mulready, painter. 8 July - Francis Kenrick, headed the Diocese of Philadelphia,24 July - Thomas Arthur Bellew, landowner and politician. 17 October - John Dunlay, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow,10 December - James FitzGibbon, British soldier and hero of the War of 1812. Ingham, painter and founder of New York National Academy of Design
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Ireland
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Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth. Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, in 2011, the population of Ireland was about 6.4 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland, the islands geography comprises relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain, with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild, thick woodlands covered the island until the Middle Ages. As of 2013, the amount of land that is wooded in Ireland is about 11% of the total, there are twenty-six extant mammal species native to Ireland. The Irish climate is moderate and classified as oceanic. As a result, winters are milder than expected for such a northerly area, however, summers are cooler than those in Continental Europe. Rainfall and cloud cover are abundant, the earliest evidence of human presence in Ireland is dated at 10,500 BC. Gaelic Ireland had emerged by the 1st century CE, the island was Christianised from the 5th century onward. Following the Norman invasion in the 12th century, England claimed sovereignty over Ireland, however, English rule did not extend over the whole island until the 16th–17th century Tudor conquest, which led to colonisation by settlers from Britain. In the 1690s, a system of Protestant English rule was designed to materially disadvantage the Catholic majority and Protestant dissenters, with the Acts of Union in 1801, Ireland became a part of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland saw much civil unrest from the late 1960s until the 1990s and this subsided following a political agreement in 1998. In 1973 the Republic of Ireland joined the European Economic Community while the United Kingdom, Irish culture has had a significant influence on other cultures, especially in the fields of literature. Alongside mainstream Western culture, an indigenous culture exists, as expressed through Gaelic games, Irish music. The culture of the island shares many features with that of Great Britain, including the English language, and sports such as association football, rugby, horse racing. The name Ireland derives from Old Irish Eriu and this in turn derives from Proto-Celtic *Iveriu, which is also the source of Latin Hibernia. Iveriu derives from a root meaning fat, prosperous, during the last glacial period, and up until about 9000 years ago, most of Ireland was covered with ice, most of the time
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1869 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1869 in Ireland. July 26 - The Royal Assent was given to the Irish Church Act, disestablishing the Church of Ireland with effect from 1871 and it had passed through the House of Commons and the House of Lords. August 31 - Scientist Mary Ward is killed in a car accident at Parsonstown. Anti-Irish riots at Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley of Wales result in one death, waterloo Cup won by Master McGrath. The Royal Ulster Yacht Club of Bangor, County Down, receives its royal warrant,16 March - Peter Maher, boxer. 27 March - James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State,26 April - Lowry Hamilton, cricketer. 19 May - John Wheatley, socialist politician 23 May - Hamilton Lyster Reed, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Colenso,29 May - William Harman, cricketer. 1 August - Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, politician in Alberta,6 August - David McKee Wright, poet. 30 November - James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, Unionist politician,27 December - William Harrington, cricketer. Helen Boyle, physician and psychologist 30 January - William Carleton,11 February - Patrick J. Whelan, tailor and alleged Fenian sympathizer, convicted of assassination of Thomas DArcy McGee in 1868, hanged. 2 March - Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, British Field Marshal,6 March - James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller. 14 March - Joseph Francis Olliffe, physician,26 March - John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. Johns, Newfoundland. 31 August - Mary Ward, scientist, Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimea
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1870 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1870 in Ireland. 19 May — The Home Government Association is established by Isaac Butt to argue for devolution for Ireland,27 August — White Stars first ocean liner RMS Oceanic is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast. First Irish Land Act passed in an attempt to secure greater security of tenure for landholders, the building of Belfast Castle is completed, to a design by Charles Lanyon and his son. Work is completed on the building of the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial to Queen Victorias late Prince Consort, first service is held in the new Saint Fin Barres Cathedral, Cork. The Water Colour Society of Ireland is founded as the Amateur Drawing Society by an group of six well-connected women from County Waterford. 8 February — Beatrice Grimshaw, anthropologist,8 February — Robert Pilkington, lawyer and politician in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly and British House of Commons. 2 April — Edmund Dwyer-Gray, politician and 29th Premier of Tasmania in 1939,17 April — Robert Tressell, born Robert Croker, radical, author of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. 5 May — Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore, High Sheriff,25 June — Robert Erskine Childers, writer, nationalist, executed by Free State firing squad at the Beggars Bush Barracks in Dublin. 8 July — R. A. Stewart Macalister, archaeologist,16 July — Lambert McKenna, Jesuit priest and writer. 19 November — William MacCarthy-Morrogh, cricketer, November — Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist MP. Undated — P. T. Daly, trade unionist,17 March — John Keegan Casey, poet of the Fenians. 25 April — Daniel Maclise, painter, may — John Skipton Mulvany, architect. 31 May — Chartres Brew, Gold commissioner, Chief Constable,7 September — Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea. 23 September — Thomas McCarthy, businessman and politician in Quebec,20 October — Michael William Balfe, composer. 9 December — Patrick MacDowell, sculptor,12 December — Martin Cregan, portrait painter
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1871 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1871 in Ireland. 1 January – Church of Ireland disestablished, st Patricks Cathedral, Dublin, becomes the National Cathedral. 15 April – Ormeau Park is opened to the public by Belfast City Council,16 June – The Westmeath Act is enacted allowing arrest and detention without trial. J. P. Mahaffy appointed to the Chair of Ancient History at Trinity College, waterloo Cup won by Master McGrath for the third time. 8 January – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland,14 January – A. M. Sullivan, lawyer. 16 January – Valentine McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee, Labour MP in the United Kingdom,19 January – Frederick Barton Maurice, soldier, military correspondent, writer and academic, founded the British Legion in 1920. 13 February – Joseph Devlin, Nationalist politician and MP in the British House of Commons,16 April – John Millington Synge, dramatist, poet and writer. 18 April – Frederick Field, Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet, may – Elinor Darwin, née Monsell, engraver and portrait painter. 17 July – John Miller Andrews, second Prime Minister of Northern Ireland,30 August – James Nathaniel Halbert, entomologist. 30 November – Thomas ODonnell, barrister, judge, Irish Nationalist, November – Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist politician and journalist. 2 January – Samuel Blackall, soldier, politician and second Governor of Queensland,3 February – James Sheridan Muspratt, research chemist and teacher. 20 February – Paul Kane, painter in Canada,1 March – Anthony Coningham Sterling, British Army officer and historian. 4 July – James Duffy, author and publisher,2 October – Sir Thomas Deane, architect. 6 October – Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl,30 November – John T. Mills, lawyer and Supreme Court Justice for the Republic of Texas. 8 December – James Murray, physician 15 December – John George, politician, judge and in 1859 Solicitor-General for Ireland
