1874 in Ireland

Events

*February - General election in which 59 professing Home Rulers were returned. [cite book | last=Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds)| year=1967 |title=The Course of Irish History | publisher=The Mercier Press | location=Cork, Ireland | pages=p 377]
*Queen Victoria creates her third eldest son, The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, after the province of Connaught.

Arts and literature

port

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

*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).

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