- 1870 in Ireland
Events
*The building of
Belfast Castle is completed, designed byCharles Lanyon and his son.
*Work is completed on the building of theAlbert Memorial Clock, Belfast , as a memorial to Queen Victoria's latePrince Consort , Prince Albert.
*Belfast Hebrew Congregation is established.Arts and literature
port
Births
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8 February -Robert Pilkington , lawyer and politician who sat inWestern Australian Legislative Assembly andBritish House of Commons (d.1942).
*2 April -Edmund Dwyer-Gray , politician and 29thPremier of Tasmania in 1939 (d.1945).
*17 April -Robert Tressell , writer and author of "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists " (d.1911).
*5 May -Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore ,High Sheriff andDeputy Lieutenant ofCounty Fermanagh (d.1948).
*25 June -Robert Erskine Childers , writer, nationalist, executed by Free Statefiring squad at the Beggar's Bush Barracks in Dublin (d.1922).
*16 July -Lambert McKenna ,Jesuit priest and writer (d.1956).
*19 November -William MacCarthy-Morrogh , cricketer (d.1939).
*November -Thomas Moles ,Ulster Unionist MP (d.1937).Full date unknown
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R. A. Stewart Macalister , archaeologist (d.1950).Deaths
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17 March -John Keegan Casey , "poet of the Fenians" (b.1846 ).
*25 April -Daniel Maclise , painter (b. 1806).
*31 May -Chartres Brew ,Gold commissioner ,Chief Constable andjudge in theColony of British Columbia (d.1815).
*7 September -Hugh Talbot Burgoyne , recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 in theSea of Azov ,Crimea (b.1833).
*23 September - Thomas McCarthy, businessman and politician inQuebec (b.1832).
*20 October -Michael William Balfe , composer (b.1808).
*9 December -Patrick MacDowell , sculptor (b.1799).
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