1872 in Ireland

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Events

• Party Processions Acts repealed.^[1]
• Summer - About 30,000 Nationalists hold a demonstration at Hannahstown in Belfast, campaigning for the release of Fenian prisoners, but leading to another series of riots between Catholics and Protestants in the city.^[1]
• Ulster Hospital for Women and Sick Children is opened in Chichester Street, Belfast.

Arts and literature

• Samuel Ferguson publishes his long poem Congal.
• Sheridan Le Fanu publishes his short-story collection In a Glass Darkly.

Sport

Births

• 14 February - Tom Ross, cricketer (died 1947).
• 31 March - Arthur Griffith, founder and third leader of Sinn Féin, served as President of Dáil Éireann (died 1922).
• 26 April - William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, later William Desmond Taylor, film director in United States (murdered 1922).
• 13 June - Blayney Hamilton, cricketer (died 1946).
• 16 July - George Henry Morris, soldier, first commanding officer to lead an Irish Guards battalion into battle (killed in action 1914).
• 23 July - John J. McGrath, Democrat U.S. Representative from California (died 1951).
• 13 August - Robert Johnston, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Elandslaagte, South Africa (died 1950).
• 4 September - James Magee, cricketer (died 1949).
• 23 September - Dan Comyn, cricketer (died 1949).
• 24 October - Peter O'Connor, athlete (born in Millom, England) (died 1957)
• 13 November - John M. Lyle, architect in Canada (died 1945).
• 28 November - Ethel Hobday, pianist (died 1947).
• Undated - Patrick R. Chalmers, writer (died 1942).

Deaths

• 8 February - Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three times Chief Secretary for Ireland, Viceroy of India, assassinated (born 1822).
• 1 June - Charles Lever, novelist (born 1806).
• 18 October - Michael O'Connor, first Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, first Catholic Bishop of Erie, Jesuit (born 1810).
• 23 November - Joseph Ward, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Gwalior, India (born 1832).
• 6 December - James Byrne, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1822).

Full date unknown

• Anne Elizabeth Ball, phycologist (born 1808).
• Robert Patterson, businessman and naturalist (born 1802).

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