Events

• February United Kingdom general election in Ireland in which 59 professing members of the Home Rule League are returned.^[1]
• Queen Victoria creates her third eldest son, 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 (died 1922).
• 24 February Con Lucid, Major League Baseball player (died 1931).
• 29 March Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, businessman, politician and philanthropist, Chancellor University of Dublin (died 1967).
• 25 April Guglielmo Marconi, inventor (born in Bologna of Irish maternity) (died 1937)
• 29 April Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan, dramatist and novelist (died 1948).
• 13 May Percy Redfern Creed, soldier, sportsman and writer (died 1964).
• 6 June George Harman, cricketer and rugby player (died 1975).
• 11 June Arthur Gwynn, cricketer and rugby player (died 1898).
• 14 June Louis Lipsett, British Army and Canadian Expeditionary Force senior officer during the First World War, killed in action (died 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 D il ireann, shot by Free State troops (died 1922).
• 18 July Bob Lambert, cricketer (died 1956).
• 20 July Monsignor Michael J. O'Doherty, Archbishop of Manila, (died 1949)
• 11 August John Philip Bagwell, general manager Great Northern Railway, Seanad member (died 1946).
• 17 September Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, soldier and politician (died 1948).
• 11 November Louise McIlroy, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the London School of Medicine for Women (died 1968).
• 18 December Philip Meldon, cricketer (died 1942).

Full date unknown

• Jer Doheny, Kilkenny hurler (died 1929).
• Eamonn Duggan, lawyer, nationalist and politician (died 1936).
• Michael Mallin, second in command of Irish Citizen Army, took part in the Easter Rising, executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail (died 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).
• 17 October John Benson architect for Irish Industrial Exhibition, Great Industrial Exhibition (1853) and the 1855 Cork Opera House (b.1812)

Full date unknown

• Michael Banim, writer (b.1796).

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