- 1874 in Ireland
Events
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February - General election in which 59 professing Home Rulers were returned. [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 377]
*Queen Victoria creates her third eldest son, The Prince Arthur,Duke of Connaught and Strathearn , after the province of Connaught.Arts and literature
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Births
January to June
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15 February -Ernest Shackleton ,explorer , remembered for his Antarctic expedition of1914 –1916 in the ship "Endurance" (d.1922).
*24 February -Con Lucid ,Major League Baseball player (d.1931).
*29 March -Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh , businessman, politician and philanthropist, ChancellorUniversity of Dublin (d.1967).
*29 April -Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan , dramatist and novelist (d.1948).
*13 May -Percy Redfern Creed , soldier, sportsman and writer (d.1964).
*6 June -George Harman , cricketer and rugby player (d.1975).
*11 June -Arthur Gwynn , cricketer and rugby player (d.1898).
*14 June -Louis Lipsett ,British Army andCanadian Expeditionary Force senior officer during theFirst World War , killed in action (d.1918).July to December
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18 July -Cathal Brugha , active inEaster Rising ,Irish War of Independence , andIrish Civil War and was firstCeann Comhairle ofDáil Éireann , shot by Free State troops (d.1922).
*18 July -Bob Lambert , cricketer (d.1956).
*20 July -Monsignor Michael J. O'Doherty ,Archbishop of Manila , (d.1949)
*11 August -John Philip Bagwell , general managerGreat Northern Railways ,Seanad member (d.1946).
*17 September -Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard , soldier and politician (d.1948).
*11 November -Louise McIlroy , Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the London School of Medicine for Women (d.1968).
*18 December -Philip Meldon , cricketer (d.1942).Full date unknown
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Jer Doheny , Kilkenny hurler (d.1929).
*Eamonn Duggan , lawyer, nationalist and politician (d.1936).
*Michael Mallin , second in command ofIrish Citizen Army , took part in theEaster Rising , executed by firing squad inKilmainham Jail (d.1916).Deaths
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27 August -John Henry Foley , sculptor (b.1818).
*17 September -Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy , politician (b.1815).
*21 September -Arthur Jacob , Ophthalmologist (b.1790).Full date unknown
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Michael Banim , writer (b.1796).References
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