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Events from the year 1870 in Ireland.
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- 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 –
Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore,
High Sheriff and
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 –
Erskine Childers, writer and nationalist (executed by Free State
firing squad
1922 at
Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin).
- 8 July –
R. A. Stewart Macalister, archaeologist (died
1950).
- 16 July –
Lambert McKenna,
Jesuit priest and writer (died
1956).
- 16 September –
John Boland, Nationalist politician,
MP and Olympic tennis gold medallist (died 1958 in England).
- 10 October –
Frank Lawless,
Sinn Féin
TD, member of the
1st Dáil and the
2nd Dáil (died
1922).
- 19 November –
William MacCarthy-Morrogh, cricketer (died
1939).
- November –
Thomas Moles,
Ulster Unionist MP (died
1937).
- 5 December –
John O'Connor, priest (died 1952 in England).
- Undated –
P. T. Daly, trade unionist (died
1943).
- 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 –
Chartres Brew,
Gold commissioner,
Chief Constable and
judge in the
Colony of British Columbia (born
1815).
- 7 September –
Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 in the
Sea of Azov,
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).