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- Sheridan Le FanuSheridan Le FanuJoseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era....
becomes the editor and proprietor of the Dublin University MagazineDublin University MagazineThe Dublin University Magazine was an independent literary cultural and political magazine published in Dublin from 1833 to 1882. It started out as a magazine of political commentary but increasingly became devoted to literature.-Early days:...
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Births
- 23 January - Katharine TynanKatharine TynanKatharine Tynan was an Irish-born writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1898 to the writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson...
, novelist and poet (d.19311931 in Ireland-Events:*12 February - Sixteen members of the Ennis Dalcassian Gaelic Athletic Association club are expelled for attending the Ennis-Nenagh rugby match....
). - 6 February - George TyrrellGeorge TyrrellGeorge Tyrrell was a Jesuit priest and a Modernist theologian and scholar. His attempts to evolve and adapt Catholic teaching in the context of modern ideas made him a key figure in the Modernist controversy within the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th century.Tyrrell was born in Dublin,...
, expelled Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (d.19091909 in Ireland-Events:*31 October - The Royal University of Ireland is dissolved.*14 December - In the large hall of the National University in Dublin, Ernest Shackleton delivers a lecture entitled 'Nearest the South Pole.'...
). - 19 March - Joseph MacRory, CardinalCardinal (Catholicism)A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...
, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (d.19451945 in Ireland-Events:* January 1 - Most public transport in the Republic of Ireland comes under the control of Córas Iompair Éireann.* January 12 - The people of Ireland donate £100,000 to the starving people of Italy....
). - 15 April - William Hoey Kearney RedmondWilliam Hoey Kearney RedmondWilliam Hoey Kearney Redmond was an Irish nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament in the Irish Parliamentary Party for 34 years, a land reform agitator imprisoned three times, a determined advocate of Irish Home Rule, a barrister and a First World War fatality.-Family background:He...
, nationalist politician, barrister, brother of John RedmondJohn RedmondJohn Edward Redmond was an Irish nationalist politician, barrister, MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 to 1918...
, killed in Battle of MessinesBattle of MessinesThe Battle of Messines was a battle of the Western front of the First World War. It began on 7 June 1917 when the British Second Army under the command of General Herbert Plumer launched an offensive near the village of Mesen in West Flanders, Belgium...
(d.19171917 in Ireland-Events:*3 February - Count George Noble Plunkett, father of Joseph Mary Plunkett, wins Roscommon North on abstentionist Sinn Féin platform.*7 March - David Lloyd-George announces that Britain is ready to confer self-government to the parts of Ireland that wants it. The north-eastern part will not...
). - 21 June - Nathaniel Thomas HoneNathaniel Thomas HoneNathaniel Thomas Hone was an Irish cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University.-Biography:...
, cricketer (d.18811881 in Ireland-Events:*16 January - The lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, -19.1C at Markree, County Sligo.*3 February - Arrest of Michael Davitt.*William Ewart Gladstone's second Land Act secures the three"f"s ....
). - 16 October - J. B. BuryJ. B. BuryJohn Bagnell Bury , known as J. B. Bury, was an Irish historian, classical scholar, Byzantinist and philologist.-Biography:...
, historian, classical scholar and philologist (d.19271927 in Ireland-Events:*April 6 - Dan Breen proposes a Bill in the Dáil that Article 17 of the Irish Free State Constitution be removed. President W. T. Cosgrave opposes the removal of the Oath of Allegiance....
. - 5 November - Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd BaronetSir Tim O'Brien, 3rd BaronetSir Timothy "Tim" Carew O'Brien, 3rd Baronet was born at Dublin on 5 November 1861 and died at Ramsey, Isle of Man on 9 December 1948. He was an Irish baronet who played cricket for England in five Test matches....
, cricketer (d.19481948 in Ireland-Events:*8 January - The Council of State meets for the first time when President Douglas Hyde test the constitutionality of the Offences Against the State Bill.*15 January - Gas rationing ends in Dublin for the first time since 1942....
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- Frank DuffyFrank Duffy (labor leader)Frank Duffy was an American labor leader and secretary-general of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America from 1901 to 1950.-Early life and union work:...
, labour leader in America (d.19551955 in IrelandThis article list notable things that happened in Ireland in 1955.-Events:*January 6 - 1,200 people meet in Dublin to form the National Farmers' Association....
). - Nathaniel Hill, artist (d.19341934 in Ireland-Events:*January 12 - Republican Press Ltd. takes a High Court action against the Garda Síochána over the seizure of the An Phoblacht newspaper.*January 20 - The funeral of the veteran nationalist Member of Parliament, Joseph Devlin, takes place in Belfast....
). - Leonard Greenham Star MolloyLeonard Greenham Star MolloyMajor Leonard Greenham Star Molloy DSO was a British doctor and politician.Molloy was born in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, the son of Richard Molloy of Rathgar, Dublin. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he obtained his M.A., M.D. and D.Ph...
, soldier, doctor, M.P. (d.19371937 in Ireland-Events:*January 22 - The National Council of Women of Ireland is agitating to form a women's police force.*April 8 - All political parties and Church leaders gather at the Mansion House, Dublin to pay tribute to the Chief Rabbi, Dr. Herzog, who is leaving to take up the new post of Chief Rabbi of...
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Deaths
- 13 May - William Henry FittonWilliam Henry FittonWilliam Henry Fitton was an Irish geologist-Biography:Fitton was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College in that city. He gained the senior scholarship in 1798, and graduated in the following year. At this time he began to take an interest in geology and to form a collection of fossils...
, geologist (b.17801780 in Ireland-Births:*January - William Henry Fitton, geologist .*13 April - Alexander Mitchell, engineer and inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse .*17 August - George Croly, poet, novelist, historian and divine ....
). - 19 May - Mother Frances Mary Teresa BallMother Frances Mary Teresa BallMother Frances Mary Teresa Ball was the foundress of the Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary .- Early life :...
, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools (b.17941794 in Ireland-Events:*4 May - Dublin Society of United Irishmen suppressed.*Establishment of Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills.-Births:*9 January - Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools ....
). - 27 June - Robert O'Hara BurkeRobert O'Hara BurkeRobert O'Hara Burke was an Irish soldier and police officer, who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled...
, explorer of Australia (b.18211821 in Ireland-Events:*28 December - Sandycove Lifeboat disaster - four lifeboatmen drowned attempting to rescue Ellen of Liverpool-Births:*20 January - Dennis Mahony, one of the founders of the Dubuque Herald , a newspaper in Dubuque, Iowa .*20 February - Miles Gerard Keon, journalist, novelist, colonial...
). - 10 December - John O'DonovanJohn O'Donovan (scholar)John O'Donovan , from Atateemore, in the parish of Kilcolumb, County Kilkenny, and educated at Hunt's Academy, Waterford, was an Irish language scholar from Ireland.-Life:...
, scholar and first historic topographer (b.18061806 in Ireland-Births:*21 January - William Quarter, first Roman Catholic bishop of Chicago .*25 July - John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer .*1 August - Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Conservative politician ....
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