- 1861 in Ireland
Events
Arts and Literature
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Sheridan Le Fanu becomes the editor and proprietor of the "Dublin University Magazine".Births
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23 January -Katharine Tynan , novelist and poet (d.1931).
*6 February -George Tyrrell , expelledJesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (d.1909).
*19 March -Joseph Cardinal MacRory , Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh andPrimate of All Ireland (d.1945) [ [http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Joseph_MacRory/ MultiText - Joseph Macroy] ] .
*15 April -William Hoey Kearney Redmond , nationalist politician, barrister, brother ofJohn Redmond , killed inBattle of Messines (d.1917).
*21 June -Nathaniel Thomas Hone , cricketer (d.1881).
*16 October -J. B. Bury , historian, classical scholar and philologist (d.1927.
*5 November -Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet , cricketer (d.1948).Full date unknown
*Frank Duffy, labour leader in America (d.1955).
*Nathaniel Hill, artist (d.1934).
*Leonard Greenham Star Molloy , soldier, doctor, M.P. (d.1937)Deaths
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13 May -William Henry Fitton , geologist (b.1780).
*19 May -Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball , founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools (b.1794).
*27 June -Robert O'Hara Burke , explorer of Australia (b.1821).
*10 December - John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer (b.1806).Full date unknown
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Catherine Hayes ,opera diva (b.1818).References
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