1867 in Ireland

1867 in Ireland

Events

*11 February - Abortive Fenian attempt to seize Chester Castle.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 370]
*5 March - Fenian rising in County Dublin, County Cork, County Limerick, County Tipperary and County Clare.
*August - Irish Republican Brotherhood convention at Manchester appoints Colonel Thomas J. Kelly to succeed James Stephens.
*18 September - Rescue of Kelly and Deasy in Manchester.
*23 November - Execution of Allen, Larkin and O'Brien at Manchester.
*13 December - Clerkenwell explosion.

Births

*1 January - Thomas Westropp Bennett, Cumann na nGaedhael member of the Seanad, Cathaoirleach of Seanad (d.1962).
*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


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