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25 January – Dolway Walkington, Irish national rugby union captain (died 1926). 9 February – James Douglas, journalist (died 1940). 10 April – George William Russell, critic, poet and artist (died 1935). 19 April – James Cullen, priest and mathematician (died 1933). 13 May – Thomas Gann, doctor, archaeologist and writer (died 1938).
After the suppression of the Irish People newspaper in September 1865, disaffection among Irish radical nationalists continued to smoulder, and during the later part of 1866, IRB leader James Stephens endeavoured to raise funds in the United States for a fresh rising planned for the following year. However the rising of 1867 proved poorly ...
Portraits of the Manchester Martyrs – Larkin (left), Allen (centre) and O'Brien (right) – on a shamrock. The Manchester Martyrs (Irish: Mairtirígh Mhanchain) [1] [2] were three Irish Republicans – William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien – who were hanged in 1867 following their conviction of murder after an attack on a police van in Manchester, England, in which a ...
The worst of these was the Great Irish Famine (1845–1851), in which about one million people died and another million emigrated. [ 4 ] The economic problems of most Irish people were in part the result of the small size of their landholdings and a large increase in the population in the years before the famine. [ 5 ]
Great Irish Famine: A potato blight destroys two-thirds of Ireland's staple crop, leading to an estimated 1 million deaths and emigration of a further 1 million people. [27] 1867: 5 March: Fenian Rising. 1879-1882: The "Land War," a period of rural agitation for fair rents and free sale of land to liberate Irish peasants from generations of ...
23 June – Francis Browning, cricketer (died 1916). 9 August – Patrick McKenna, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, 1909–1942 (died 1942). 14 September – Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (died 1958). Full date unknown. P. J. Brady, Irish Nationalist Member of UK Parliament for Dublin St Stephen’s Green (died ...
The Public Records Office of Ireland c. 1900. In 1867, under the reign of Queen Victoria, the British Parliament passed the Public Records (Ireland) Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 70) to establish the Public Record Office of Ireland which was tasked with collecting administrative, court and probate records over twenty years old. [5]
16 October – Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, British Army commander in World War I, later Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Field Marshal (died 1946). 12 November – Herbert Trench, poet (died 1923). Full date unknown. Grace Rhys, née Little, novelist (died 1929). Robert Henry Woods, Irish Unionist MP (died 1938).