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List of events
Events from the year 1869 in Ireland.
Events
Sport
Hare coursing
Yachting
Births
- 16 March –
Peter Maher, boxer (died
1940).
- 27 March –
James McNeill, politician and second
Governor-General of the Irish Free State (died
1938).
- 26 April – Lowry Hamilton, cricketer (died
1936).
- 19 May –
John Wheatley, socialist politician (died
1930 in Scotland)
- 23 May –
Hamilton Lyster Reed, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the
Battle of Colenso,
South Africa (died
1931).
- 29 May –
William Harman, cricketer (died
1962).
- 1 August –
Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, politician in
Alberta,
Canada (died
1951).
- 6 August –
David McKee Wright, poet (died
1928 in Australia).
- 30 November –
James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn,
Unionist politician and first
Governor of Northern Ireland (died
1953).
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- 27 December –
William Harrington, cricketer (died
1940).
-
Helen Boyle, physician and psychologist (died 1957 in England)
Deaths
- 30 January –
William Carleton, writer (born
1794).
- 11 February –
Patrick J. Whelan,
tailor and alleged
Fenian sympathizer, convicted of
assassination of
Thomas D'Arcy McGee in 1868, hanged (b. c1840).
- 2 March –
Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough,
British
Field Marshal (born
1779).
- 6 March –
James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller (born
1804).
- 14 March –
Joseph Francis Olliffe, physician (born
1808).
- 26 March –
John T. Mullock,
Roman Catholic
Bishop of
St. John's,
Newfoundland (born
1807).
- 31 August –
Mary Ward, scientist (born
1827).
- 10 June –
Joseph Prosser, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at
Sevastopol,
Crimea (born
1833; died in Liverpool).
See also
References