1867 in Ireland
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[edit] Events
- 11 February - Abortive Fenian attempt to seize Chester Castle.[1]
- 5 March - Fenian rising in County Dublin, County Cork, County Limerick, County Tipperary and County Clare.[1]
- August - Irish Republican Brotherhood convention at Manchester appoints Colonel Thomas J. Kelly to succeed James Stephens.[1]
- 18 September - Rescue of Kelly and Deasy in Manchester.[1]
- 23 November - Execution of Allen, Larkin and O'Brien at Manchester.[1]
- 13 December - Clerkenwell explosion.[1]
[edit] Births
- 1 January - Thomas Westropp Bennett, Cumann na nGaedhael member of the Seanad, Cathaoirleach of Seanad (d.1962).
- 10 April - George William Russell, critic, poet and artist (d.1935).
- 19 April - James Cullen, priest and mathematician (d.1933).
- 13 May - Thomas Gann, doctor, archaeologist and writer (d.1938).
- 15 May - Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary (d.1945).
- 17 June - John Robert Gregg, creator of Gregg Shorthand (d.1948).
- 11 August - Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin, barrister and politician (d.1927).
- 10 November - John Henry Patterson, soldier, hunter and writer (d.1947).
- 16 December - Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary and writer (d.1951).
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- Cathal O'Byrne, singer, poet and writer (d.1957).
- Ella Young, poet (d.1956).
[edit] Deaths
- 7 February - William Dargan, engineer and railway builder (b.1799).
- 22 February - Daniel Devlin, businessman and City Chamberlain in New York (b.1814.
- 12 April - Robert Bell, journalist and writer (b.1800).
- 20 April - John Lyons, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (b.1823).
- 17 September - Francis Blackburne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b.1782).
- 23 September - Richard W. Dowling, victorious commander at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass in the American Civil War (b.1838).
- 31 October - William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer and builder of the "Leviathan of Parsonstown" (b.1800).
- 10 December - Edward Whelan, politician, one of the Fathers of the Canadian Confederation (b.1824).
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- George Crawford Hyndman, auctioneer and amateur biologist (b.1796).
