1865 in Ireland
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[edit] Events
- Work begins on the building of the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial to Queen Victoria's late Prince Consort, Prince Albert.
[edit] Births
- 6 February - Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer (d.1939).
- 16 March - Patsy Donovan, Major League Baseball player and manager (d.1953).
- 17 March - Patrick Joseph Sullivan, mayor of Casper, Wyoming and Republican member of the United States Senate from Wyoming (d.1935).
- 20 April - James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (d.1954).
- 4 May - Charles A. Callis, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.1947).
- 7 May - John MacBride, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader, executed (d.1916).
- 8 May - Charles FitzClarence, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 near Mafeking, South Africa, killed in action (d.1914).
- 13 June - William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist (d.1939).
- 15 July - Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper and publishing magnate (d.1922)
- 16 October - Frederick Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, British Army commander in World War I, later Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Field Marshal (d.1946).
- 12 November - Herbert Trench, poet (d.1923).
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- Thomas Kent, nationalist and rebel, executed following a gunfight with the RIC (d.1916).
- Alice Milligan, nationalist and poet (d.1953).
- Dermod O'Brien, painter (d.1945).
- Grace Rhys, novelist (d.1929).
[edit] Deaths
- 1 April - John Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart, Conservative politician. (b.1818).
- 23 May - Benjamin Holmes, businessman and politician in Quebec (b.1794).
- 14 July - Nathaniel Burslem, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (b.1838).
- 31 August - John Farrell, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade (b.1826).
- 2 September - William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b.1805).
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- Jones Quain, anatomist (b.1796).