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]
• 12 July Despite the Party Processions Acts, the Orange Order parades from Bangor to Newtownards in County Down. It is organised by William Johnston (sentenced to a short term in prison the next year for his actions) and about 30,000 take part.^[2]
• 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 in London.^[1]
• Royal Irish Constabulary granted its "Royal" prefix by Queen Victoria.^[3]

Births

• 1 January Thomas Westropp Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal member of the Seanad, Cathaoirleach of Seanad (d.1962).
• 25 January Dolway Walkington, Irish national rugby union captain (d.1926).
• 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).

Full date unknown

• Cathal O'Byrne, singer, poet and writer (d.1957).
• Ella Young, poet (d.1956).

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).

Full date unknown

• George Crawford Hyndman, auctioneer and amateur biologist (b.1796).

References