1869 In Ireland

Events from the year 1869 in Ireland.

Events

* July 26 – the royal assent is given to the Irish Church Act 1869, Irish Church Act, disestablishmentarianism, disestablishing the Church of Ireland with effect from 1871 in Ireland, 1871 and abolishing payment of tithe, the legislation having passed through the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and House of Lords.
* August – anti-Irish riots at Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley of Wales result in one death.
* August 31 – scientist Mary Ward (scientist), Mary Ward is killed in a steam car accident at Birr, County Offaly, Parsonstown, Ireland's first victim of a mechanically propelled road vehicle.

Sport

Hare coursing

*Waterloo Cup won by Master McGrath.

Yachting

*The Royal Ulster Yacht Club of Bangor, County Down, receives its Royal charter, royal warrant.

Births

*16 March – Peter Maher (boxer), Peter Maher, boxer (died 1940 in Ireland, 1940).
*27 March – James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State (died 1938 in Northern Ireland, 1938).
*26 April – Lowry Hamilton, cricketer (died 1936 in Ireland, 1936).
*19 May – John Wheatley, socialist politician (died 1930 in Scotland)
*23 May – Hamilton Lyster Reed, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Colenso, South Africa (died 1931 in Ireland, 1931).
*29 May – William Harman, cricketer (died 1962 in Ireland, 1962).
*1 August – Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, politician in Alberta, Canada (died 1951 in Ireland, 1951).
*6 August – David McKee Wright, poet (died 1928 in Australia).
*30 November – James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, Unionist (Ireland), Unionist politician and first Governor of Northern Ireland (died 1953 in Ireland, 1953).Abercorn: James Hamilton
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*27 December – William Harrington (Irish cricketer), William Harrington, cricketer (died 1940 in Ireland, 1940).
*Helen Boyle, physician and psychologist (died 1957 in England)

Deaths

*30 January – William Carleton, writer (born 1794 in Ireland, 1794).
*11 February – Patrick J. Whelan, tailor and alleged Fenian sympathizer, convicted of assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee in 1868, hanged (b. c1840).
*2 March – Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, United Kingdom, British Field Marshal (born 1779 in Ireland, 1779).
*6 March – James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller (born 1804 in Ireland, 1804).
*14 March – Joseph Francis Olliffe, physician (born 1808 in Ireland, 1808).
*26 March – John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland (born 1807 in Ireland, 1807).
*31 August – Mary Ward (scientist), Mary Ward, scientist (born 1827 in Ireland, 1827).
*10 June – Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimean Peninsula, Crimea (born 1833 in Ireland, 1833; died in Liverpool).

References

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1860s in Ireland
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Years of the 19th century in Ireland