1872 in Ireland

1872 in Ireland

Events

*Ulster Hospital for Women and Sick Children is opened in Chichester Street, Belfast.

Arts and literature

*Sheridan Le Fanu publishes short-story collection "In a Glass Darkly".

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Births

*14 February - Tom Ross, cricketer (d.1947).
*31 March - Arthur Griffith, founder and third leader of Sinn Féin, served as President of Dáil Éireann (d.1922).
*13 June - Blayney Hamilton, cricketer (d.1946).
*16 July - George Henry Morris, soldier, first commanding officer to lead an Irish Guards battalion into battle, killed in action (d.1914).
*23 July - John J. McGrath, Democrat U.S. Representative from California (d.1951).
*13 August - Robert Johnston, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Elandslaagte, South Africa (d.1950).
*4 September - James Magee, cricketer (d.1949).
*23 September - Dan Comyn, cricketer (d.1949).
*13 November - John M. Lyle, architect in Canada (d.1945).
*28 November - Ethel Hobday, pianist.

Full date unknown

*Patrick R. Chalmers, writer (d.1942).
*Joseph Devlin, Nationalist politician and MP in the British House of Commons and in Northern Ireland (d.1934).

Deaths

*8 February - Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three times Chief Secretary for Ireland, Viceroy of India, assassinated (b.1822).
*1 June - Charles Lever, novelist (b.1806).
*18 October - Michael O'Connor, first Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, first Catholic Bishop of Erie, Jesuit (b.1810).
*23 November - Joseph Ward, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Gwalior, India (b.1832).

Full date unknown

*Robert Patterson, businessman and naturalist (b.1802).


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