1874 In Ireland

Events from the year 1874 in Ireland.

Events

*17 February – United Kingdom general election in Ireland in which 59 professing members of the Home Rule League are returned.
*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

Sport

Births

*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

*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

* 1874 in Scotland
* 1874 in Wales

References

{{Years in Ireland

1870s in Ireland
Ireland
Years of the 19th century in Ireland