- 1867 in Ireland
Events
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11 February - AbortiveFenian attempt to seizeChester 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 inCounty Dublin ,County Cork ,County Limerick ,County Tipperary andCounty Clare .
*August -Irish Republican Brotherhood convention atManchester 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
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1 January -Thomas Westropp Bennett ,Cumann na nGaedhael member of theSeanad ,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 ofGregg 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
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Cathal O'Byrne , singer, poet and writer (d.1957).
*Ella Young , poet (d.1956).Deaths
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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 theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in theCrimea (b.1823).
*17 September -Francis Blackburne ,Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b.1782).
*23 September -Richard W. Dowling , victorious commander at theSecond Battle of Sabine Pass in theAmerican 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 theCanadian Confederation (b.1824).Full date unknown
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George Crawford Hyndman , auctioneer and amateur biologist (b.1796).References
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