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Contents |
Events
- Foundation of the Munster Bank later rescued as the Munster & Leinster Bank. See Allied Irish Banks.
Arts and Literature
- Sheridan Le Fanu publishes Uncle Silas.
Births
- 13 February - Stephen Lucius Gwynn, journalist, writer, poet and Nationalist politician (d.1950).
- 22 February - Michael Donohoe, Democrat U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (d.1958).
- 4 March - Daniel Mannix, Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years (d.1963).
- 5 May - Henry Hughes Wilson, British Field Marshal and Conservative Party politician, killed by the Irish Republican Army (d.1922).
- 11 May - Ethel Lilian Voynich, novelist and musician (d.1960).
- 16 July - Joseph O'Mara, opera singer (d.1927).
- 1 September - Roger Casement, British diplomat, nationalist, poet and Irish revolutionary, executed at Pentonville Prison (d.1916).
- 19 October - Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, peer and soldier (d.1915).
- 11 November - John Meredith, Australian Army Brigadier General (d.1942).
- 22 November - Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet, Unionist MP and Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland 1925-1937 (d.1944).
- 9 December - Willoughby Hamilton, tennis player, Wimbledon Champion in 1890 (d.1943).
- 21 December - James Whiteside McCay, Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments (d.1930).
Full date unknown
- William Gerard Barry, painter (d.1941).
- Denis Grimes, Limerick hurler (d.1920).
- Seán O'Μahony, Sinn Féin MP (d.1934).
- Moira O'Neill, poet (d.1955).
Deaths
- 20 May - John George Bowes, businessman and political figure in Canada East (b. c1812).
- 4 July - Thomas Colley Grattan, writer (b.1792).
- 23 July - Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (b.1824).
- 21 November - Bishop Charles McNally, Bishop of Clogher 1844-1864 (b.1787).
- 30 November - Patrick Cleburne, major general in Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Franklin (b.1828).
- 23 December - James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (b.1805).
Full date unknown
- Nicholas Callan, priest and scientist (b.1799).
- Joseph Patrick Haverty, painter (b.1794).