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1871 in Ireland
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1870
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in
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1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
Decades:
1850s • 1860s •
1870s
• 1880s • 1890s
Centuries:
17th • 18th •
19th
• 20th • 21st
See also:
1871 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1871
List of years in Ireland
Contents
1
Events
2
Arts and literature
3
Sport
4
Births
4.1
Full date unknown
5
Deaths
5.1
Full date unknown
6
References
Events
1 January -
Church of Ireland
disestablished.
J. P. Mahaffy
appointed to the Chair of Ancient History at
Trinity College, Dublin
at the age of 32
[
1
]
.
16 June - The
Westmeath Act
is enacted allowing arrest and detention without trial.
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
8 January -
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon
, first
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
(d.
1940
).
14 January -
A. M. Sullivan
, lawyer (d.
1959
).
16 January -
Valentine McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee
,
Labour
MP
in the United Kingdom (d.
1953
).
19 January -
Frederick Barton Maurice
, soldier, military correspondent, writer and academic, founded the
British Legion
in 1920 (d.
1951
).
16 April -
John Millington Synge
, dramatist, poet and writer (d.
1909
).
18 April -
Frederick Field
,
Royal Navy
Admiral of the Fleet
and
First Sea Lord
(d.
1945
).
17 July -
John Miller Andrews
, second
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
(d.
1956
).
30 August -
James Nathaniel Halbert
,
entomologist
(d.
1948
).
30 November -
Thomas O'Donnell
, barrister, judge,
Irish Nationalist
,
MP
(d.
1943
).
November -
Thomas Moles
,
Ulster Unionist
politician and journalist (d.
1937
).
Full date unknown
Elinor Darwin
, engraver and painter (d.
1954
).
Deaths
2 January -
Samuel Blackall
, soldier, politician and second
Governor of Queensland
, Australia (b.
1809
).
3 February -
James Sheridan Muspratt
, research chemist and teacher (b.
1821
).
20 February -
Paul Kane
, painter in Canada (b.
1810
).
1 March -
Anthony Coningham Sterling
,
British Army
officer and
historian
(b.
1805
).
4 July -
James Duffy
, author and publisher (b.
1809
).
6 October -
Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
, peer (b.
1812
).
30 November -
John T. Mills
, lawyer and Supreme Court Justice for the
Republic of Texas
(b.
1817
).
15 December -
John George
, politician, judge and in 1859
Solicitor-General for Ireland
(b.
1804
).
Full date unknown
Thomas Deane
, architect (b.
1792
).
References
^
Edward Carson
. A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill's Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981