1868 in Ireland

Events

• 26 May - Michael Barrett, member of the Fenians, publicly executed outside the walls of Newgate Prison, for his part in the Clerkenwell bombing of 1867.

Births

• 2 February - Frederic Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown, peer (d.1946).
• 4 February - Constance Gore-Booth (later Markievicz), Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil TD, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister (d.1927).
• 1 May - George F. O'Shaunessy, Democrat U.S. Representative from Rhode Island (d.1934).
• 5 June - James Connolly, socialist, trade unionist, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader, executed (d.1916).
• 7 June - John Sealy Townsend, mathematical physicist (d.1957).
• 23 June - Francis Browning, cricketer (d.1916).
• 9 August - Bishop Patrick McKenna, Bishop of Clogher, 1909-1942 (d.1942).
• 14 September - Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (d.1958).

Full date unknown

• P. J. Brady, Irish Nationalist Member of UK Parliament for Dublin St Stephen’s Green (d.1943).

Deaths

January to June

• 9 January - John Henry Hopkins, first bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (b.1792).
• 19 February - Dominick Daly, Governor of Prince Edward Island, later Governor of South Australia (b.1798).
• 7 April - D'Arcy McGee, journalist, politician in Canada, assassinated (b.1825).
• 21 April - Henry James O'Farrell, hanged in Australia for attempted assassination of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
• 19 May - Benjamin Guinness, brewer and philanthropist (b.1798).
• 26 May - Michael Barrett, member of the Fenians, executed in London.
• 17 June - Samuel Hill Lawrence, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (b.1831).
• 25 June - Alexander Mitchell, engineer and inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse (b.1780).

July to December

• 26 July - Peter Gill, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 in Benares, India (b.1831).
• 3 August - Charles Graham Halpine, journalist, editor and author (b.1829).
• 20 August - Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, politician and peer (b.1799).
• 26 December - Richard Mayne, barrister and joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police (1829–1868) (b.1796).