- 1871 in Ireland
Events
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J. P. Mahaffy appointed to the Chair of Ancient History atTrinity College, Dublin at the age of 32 ["Edward Carson". A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981] .
*16 June - TheWestmeath Act is enacted allowing arrest and detention without trial.Arts and literature
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Births
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8 January -James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon , firstPrime Minister of Northern Ireland (d.1940).
*14 January - A. M. Sullivan, lawyer (d.1959).
*16 January -Valentine McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee , Labour MP in theUnited Kingdom (d.1953).
*19 January -Frederick Barton Maurice , soldier, military correspondent, writer and academic, founded the British Legion in 1920 (d.1951).
*16 April -John Millington Synge , dramatist, poet and writer (d.1909).
*18 April - Frederick Field,Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet andFirst Sea Lord (d.1945).
*17 July -John Miller Andrews , secondPrime Minister of Northern Ireland (d.1956).
*30 August -James Nathaniel Halbert ,entomologist (d.1948).
*30 November - Thomas O'Donnell, barrister, judge, Irish Nationalist, MP (d.1943).
*November -Thomas Moles ,Ulster Unionist politician and journalist (d.1937).Full date unknown
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Elinor Darwin , engraver and painter (d.1954).Deaths
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2 January -Samuel Blackall , soldier, politician and secondGovernor of Queensland ,Australia (b.1809).
*3 February -James Sheridan Muspratt , research chemist and teacher (b.1821).
*20 February -Paul Kane , painter inCanada (b.1810).
*1 March -Anthony Coningham Sterling ,British Army officer andhistorian (b.1805).
*4 July - James Duffy, author and publisher (b.1809).
*6 October -Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl , peer (b.1812).
*30 November -John T. Mills , lawyer and Supreme Court Justice for theRepublic of Texas (b.1817).
*15 December - John George, politician, judge and in 1859Solicitor-General for Ireland (b.1804).Full date unknown
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Thomas Deane , architect (b.1792).References
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