1874 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 6 References

Events

• February — General election in which 59 professing Home Rulers were returned.^[1]
• Queen Victoria creates her third eldest son, The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, after the province of Connaught.

Arts and literature

Sport

Births

January to June

• 15 February — Ernest Shackleton, explorer, remembered for his Antarctic expedition of 1914–1916 in the ship Endurance (d.1922).
• 24 February — Con Lucid, Major League Baseball player (d.1931).
• 29 March — Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, businessman, politician and philanthropist, Chancellor University of Dublin (d.1967).
• 29 April — Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan, dramatist and novelist (d.1948).
• 13 May — Percy Redfern Creed, soldier, sportsman and writer (d.1964).
• 6 June — George Harman, cricketer and rugby player (d.1975).
• 11 June — Arthur Gwynn, cricketer and rugby player (d.1898).
• 14 June — Louis Lipsett, British Army and Canadian Expeditionary Force senior officer during the First World War, killed in action (d.1918).

July to December

• 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 (d.1922).
• 18 July — Bob Lambert, cricketer (d.1956).
• 20 July — Monsignor Michael J. O'Doherty, Archbishop of Manila, (d.1949)
• 11 August — John Philip Bagwell, general manager Great Northern Railways, Seanad member (d.1946).
• 17 September — Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, soldier and politician (d.1948).
• 11 November — Louise McIlroy, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the London School of Medicine for Women (d.1968).
• 18 December — Philip Meldon, cricketer (d.1942).

Full date unknown

• Jer Doheny, Kilkenny hurler (d.1929).
• Eamonn Duggan, lawyer, nationalist and politician (d.1936).
• Michael Mallin, second in command of Irish Citizen Army, took part in the Easter Rising, executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail (d.1916).

Deaths

• 26 July — Abraham Brewster, judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b.1796).
• 27 August — John Henry Foley, sculptor (b.1818).
• 17 September — Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy, politician (b.1815).
• 21 September — Arthur Jacob, Ophthalmologist (b.1790).

Full date unknown

• Michael Banim, writer (b.1796).

References