1870 in Ireland

1870 in Ireland

Events

*The building of Belfast Castle is completed, designed by Charles Lanyon and his son.
*Work is completed on the building of the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial to Queen Victoria's late Prince Consort, Prince Albert.
*Belfast Hebrew Congregation is established.

Arts and literature

port

Births

*8 February - Robert Pilkington, lawyer and politician who sat in Western Australian Legislative Assembly and British House of Commons (d.1942).
*2 April - Edmund Dwyer-Gray, politician and 29th Premier 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 and Deputy Lieutenant of County Fermanagh (d.1948).
*25 June - Robert Erskine Childers, writer, nationalist, executed by Free State firing 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

*R. A. Stewart Macalister, archaeologist (d.1950).

Deaths

*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 and judge in the Colony of British Columbia (d.1815).
*7 September - Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea (b.1833).
*23 September - Thomas McCarthy, businessman and politician in Quebec (b.1832).
*20 October - Michael William Balfe, composer (b.1808).
*9 December - Patrick MacDowell, sculptor (b.1799).


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