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1870 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1870 in Ireland
.
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See also:
1870 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1870
List of years in Ireland
Events
edit
19 May – the
Home Government Association
is established by
Isaac Butt
to argue for devolution for Ireland and repeal of the
Act of Union
.
[1]
27 August –
White Star
's first
ocean liner
RMS
Oceanic
is launched by
Harland and Wolff
in
Belfast
.
19 October –
SS
Cambria
(1869)
is wrecked on
Inishtrahull
with the loss of 179 lives.
[2]
Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act 1870
passed in an attempt to secure greater security of tenure for landholders.
[3]
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 Victoria
's late
Prince Consort
,
Prince Albert
.
First service is held in the new
Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral
,
Cork
(
Church of Ireland
).
Belfast Hebrew Congregation
is established.
Arts and literature
edit
The
Water Colour Society of Ireland
is founded as the
Amateur Drawing Society
by an informal group of six well-connected women from
County Waterford
.
[4]
Sport
edit
Births
edit
22 January –
John B. Sheridan
, Irish American sports journalist (died
1930 in the United States
)
3 February –
Beatrice Grimshaw
,
anthropologist
(died
1953 in Australia
).
8 February –
Robert Pilkington
, lawyer and politician in the
Western Australian Legislative Assembly
and
House of Commons of the UK
(died 1942 in England).
2 April –
Edmund Dwyer-Gray
, politician and 29th
Premier of Tasmania
in 1939 (died
1945 in Australia
).
17 April –
Robert Tressell
, born Robert Croker, radical, author of
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
(died 1911 in England).
5 May –
Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore
,
High Sheriff
and
Deputy Lieutenant
of
County Fermanagh
(died
1948
).
22 May –
Eva Gore-Booth
, poet, dramatist, suffragist, social worker and labour activist (died 1926 in London).
25 June –
Erskine Childers
, writer and nationalist (executed by Free State
firing squad
1922
at
Beggars Bush Barracks
, Dublin).
8 July –
R. A. Stewart Macalister
, archaeologist (died
1950
).
16 July –
Lambert McKenna
,
Jesuit
priest and writer (died
1956
).
16 September –
John Boland
, Nationalist politician,
MP
and Olympic tennis gold medallist (died 1958 in England).
10 October –
Frank Lawless
,
Sinn Féin
TD
, member of the
1st Dáil
and the
2nd Dáil
(died
1922
).
19 November –
William MacCarthy-Morrogh
, cricketer (died
1939
).
November –
Thomas Moles
,
Ulster Unionist
MP (died
1937
).
5 December –
John O'Connor
, priest (died 1952 in England).
Undated –
P. T. Daly
, trade unionist (died
1943
).
Deaths
edit
17 March –
John Keegan Casey
, "poet of the Fenians" (born 1846).
25 April –
Daniel Maclise
, painter (born
1806
).
c. May –
John Skipton Mulvany
, architect (born
1813
).
31 May –
Chartres Brew
,
Gold commissioner
,
Chief Constable
and
judge
in the
Colony of British Columbia
(born
1815
).
7 September –
Hugh Talbot Burgoyne
, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
for gallantry in 1855 in the
Sea of Azov
,
Crimea
(born
1833
).
23 September –
Thomas McCarthy
, businessman and politician in
Quebec
(born
1832
).
20 October –
Michael William Balfe
, composer (born
1808
).
9 December –
Patrick MacDowell
, sculptor (born
1799
).
12 December –
Martin Cregan
, portrait painter (born
1788
).
See also
edit
1870 in Scotland
1870 in Wales
References
edit
^
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 422–423.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
"The Wreck of the Cambria".
The New York Times
. 1870-10-28
. Retrieved
2012-11-05
.
^
Lyons, F. S. L. (1985).
Ireland Since the Famine
.
^
"Water Colour Society of Ireland: A Brief History". University of Limerick. Archived from the original on 2015-04-09
. Retrieved
2015-04-04
.