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1874 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1874 in Ireland
.
←
1873
1872
1871
1870
1869
1874
in
Ireland
→
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
See also:
1874 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1874
List of years in Ireland
Events
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17 February –
United Kingdom general election in Ireland
in which 59 professing members of the
Home Rule League
are returned.
[1]
24 May –
Queen Victoria
creates her third eldest son,
Prince Arthur
,
Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
, after the province of
Connaught
.
26 July – the
Roman Catholic
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Sligo
, is opened.
Arts and literature
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Sport
edit
Births
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28 January –
Kathleen Lynn
, physician and politician (died
1955
).
15 February –
Ernest Shackleton
,
explorer
, remembered for his Antarctic expedition of 1914–1916 in the ship
Endurance
(died
1922
).
24 February –
Con Lucid
,
Major League Baseball
player (died
1931
).
29 March –
Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh
, businessman, politician and philanthropist,
Chancellor of the University of Dublin
(died
1967
).
24 April –
Annie Moore
, migrant to the United States (died c.1924).
25 April –
Guglielmo Marconi
, inventor (born in
Bologna
of Irish maternity) (died 1937)
29 April –
Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan
, dramatist and novelist (died
1948
).
13 May –
Percy Redfern Creed
, soldier, sportsman and writer (died
1964
).
6 June –
George Harman
, cricketer and rugby player (died
1975
).
11 June –
Arthur Gwynn
, cricketer and rugby player (died
1898
).
14 June –
Louis Lipsett
,
British Army
and
Canadian Expeditionary Force
senior officer during the
First World War
(killed in action 1918).
18 July –
Cathal Brugha
, active in
Easter Rising
,
Irish War of Independence
, and
Irish Civil War
and was first
Ceann Comhairle
of
Dáil Éireann
, shot by Free State troops (died
1922
).
18 July –
Bob Lambert
, cricketer (died
1956
).
20 July
Jer Doheny
,
Kilkenny
hurler (died
1929
).
Monsignor
Michael J. O'Doherty
,
Archbishop of Manila
(died 1949)
11 August –
John Philip Bagwell
, general manager
Great Northern Railway
,
Seanad
member (died
1946
).
17 September –
Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard
, soldier and politician (died
1948
).
11 November –
Louise McIlroy
, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the London School of Medicine for Women (died
1968
).
1 December –
Michael Mallin
, second in command of
Irish Citizen Army
, participant in the
Easter Rising
(
executed by firing squad
in
Kilmainham Jail
1916
).
18 December –
Philip Meldon
, cricketer (died
1942
).
Full date unknown
Eamonn Duggan
, lawyer, nationalist and politician (died
1936
).
Patrick Hannon
,
Conservative and Unionist Party (UK)
politician (died
1963
).
Deaths
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April –
Biddy Early
,
traditional healer
(born c. 1798).
26 July –
Abraham Brewster
, judge and
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
(born
1796
).
27 August –
John Henry Foley
, sculptor (born
1818
).
30 August –
Michael Banim
, writer (born
1796
).
17 September –
Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy
, politician (born
1815
).
21 September –
Arthur Jacob
,
ophthalmologist
(born
1790
).
17 October –
John Benson
, architect for
Irish Industrial Exhibition
,
Great Industrial Exhibition (1853)
and the 1855
Cork Opera House
(born
1812
).
See also
edit
1874 in Scotland
1874 in Wales
References
edit
^
Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967).
The Course of Irish History
. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 377.