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Events
Arts and Literature
- Sheridan Le Fanu becomes the editor and proprietor of the Dublin University Magazine.
Births
- 23 January - Katharine Tynan, novelist and poet (d.1931).
- 6 February - George Tyrrell, expelled Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (d.1909).
- 19 March - Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (d.1945)[1].
- 15 April - William Hoey Kearney Redmond, nationalist politician, barrister, brother of John Redmond, killed in Battle of Messines (d.1917).
- 21 June - Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer (d.1881).
- 16 October - J. B. Bury, historian, classical scholar and philologist (d.1927.
- 5 November - Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet, cricketer (d.1948).
Full date unknown
- Frank Duffy, labour leader in America (d.1955).
- Nathaniel Hill, artist (d.1934).
- Leonard Greenham Star Molloy, soldier, doctor, M.P. (d.1937)
Deaths
- 13 May - William Henry Fitton, geologist (b.1780).
- 19 May - Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools (b.1794).
- 27 June - Robert O'Hara Burke, explorer of Australia (b.1821).
- 10 December - John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer (b.1806).
Full date unknown
- Catherine Hayes, opera diva (b.1818).
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