- 1868 in Ireland
Events
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26 May - Michael Barrett, member of theFenian s, publicly executed outside the walls ofNewgate Prison , for his part in theClerkenwell bombing of 1867.Births
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2 February -Frederic Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown , peer (d.1946).
*4 February -Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz ,Sinn Féin andFianna Fáil TD, member of1st Dáil , Cabinet Minister (d.1927).
*1 May -George F. O'Shaunessy , DemocratU.S. Representative fromRhode Island (d.1934).
*5 June -James Connolly , socialist, trade unionist, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader, executed (d.1916).
*7 June -John Sealy Townsend , mathematical physicist (d.1957).
*23 June -Francis Browning , cricketer (d.1916).
*9 August -Bishop Patrick McKenna , Bishop of Clogher,1909 -1942 (d.1942).
*14 September -Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran ,Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (d.1958).Full date unknown
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P. J. Brady , Irish Nationalist Member of UK Parliament for Dublin St Stephen’s Green (d.1943).Deaths
January to June
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9 January -John Henry Hopkins , firstbishop ofEpiscopal Diocese of Vermont and eighthPresiding Bishop of theEpiscopal Church in the United States of America (b.1792).
*19 February -Dominick Daly , Governor of Prince Edward Island, laterGovernor of South Australia (b.1798).
*7 April -D'Arcy McGee , journalist, politician inCanada , assassinated (b.1825).
*21 April -Henry James O'Farrell , hanged inAustralia for attempted assassination of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
*19 May -Benjamin Guinness , brewer and philanthropist (b.1798).
*26 May - Michael Barrett, member of theFenian s, executed inLondon .
*17 June -Samuel Hill Lawrence , recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in1857 at Lucknow,India (b.1831).
*25 June - Alexander Mitchell, engineer andinventor of thescrew-pile lighthouse (b.1780).July to December
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26 July - Peter Gill, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 inBenares ,India (b.1831).
*3 August -Charles Graham Halpine , journalist, editor and author (b.1829).
*20 August -Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham , politician and peer (b.1799).
*26 December -Richard Mayne , barrister and joint firstCommissioner of Police of the Metropolis , head of theLondon Metropolitan Police (1829–1868) (b.1796).
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