1870 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1870 in Ireland.

Events

• 19 May – the
  Act of Union.^[1]
• 27 August –
  Harland and Wolff in Belfast
  .
• 19 October – SS Cambria (1869) is wrecked on Inishtrahull with the loss of 179 lives.^[2]
• Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act 1870 passed in an attempt to secure greater security of tenure for landholders.^[3]
• The building of Belfast Castle is completed, to a design by Charles Lanyon and his son.
• Work is completed on the building of the
  Prince Albert
  .
• First service is held in the new Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork (Church of Ireland).
• Belfast Hebrew Congregation
  is established.

Arts and literature

• The Water Colour Society of Ireland is founded as the Amateur Drawing Society by an informal group of six well-connected women from County Waterford.^[4]

Sport

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Births

• 22 January – John B. Sheridan, Irish American sports journalist (died 1930 in the United States)
• 3 February – Beatrice Grimshaw, anthropologist (died 1953 in Australia).
• 8 February – Robert Pilkington, lawyer and politician in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly and House of Commons of the UK (died 1942 in England).
• 2 April – Edmund Dwyer-Gray, politician and 29th Premier of Tasmania in 1939 (died 1945 in Australia).
• 17 April – Robert Tressell, born Robert Croker, radical, author of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (died 1911 in England).
• 5 May –
  Deputy Lieutenant of County Fermanagh (died 1948
  ).
• 22 May – Eva Gore-Booth, poet, dramatist, suffragist, social worker and labour activist (died 1926 in London).
• 25 June –
  firing squad 1922 at Beggars Bush Barracks
  , Dublin).
• 8 July – R. A. Stewart Macalister, archaeologist (died 1950).
• 16 July –
  Jesuit priest and writer (died 1956
  ).
• 16 September –
  MP
  and Olympic tennis gold medallist (died 1958 in England).
• 10 October –
  2nd Dáil (died 1922
  ).
• 19 November – William MacCarthy-Morrogh, cricketer (died 1939).
• November –
  Ulster Unionist MP (died 1937
  ).
• 5 December – John O'Connor, priest (died 1952 in England).
• Undated – P. T. Daly, trade unionist (died 1943).

Deaths

• 17 March – John Keegan Casey, "poet of the Fenians" (born 1846).
• 25 April – Daniel Maclise, painter (born 1806).
• c. May – John Skipton Mulvany, architect (born 1813).
• 31 May –
  Chief Constable and judge in the Colony of British Columbia (born 1815
  ).
• 7 September –
  Crimea (born 1833
  ).
• 23 September – Thomas McCarthy, businessman and politician in Quebec (born 1832).
• 20 October – Michael William Balfe, composer (born 1808).
• 9 December – Patrick MacDowell, sculptor (born 1799).
• 12 December – Martin Cregan, portrait painter (born 1788).

See also

• 1870 in Scotland
• 1870 in Wales

References