1869 in Ireland

Events

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland passes the Irish Church Disestablishment Act.

Births

*16 March - Peter Maher, boxer (d.1940).
*27 March - James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d.1938).
*26 April - Lowry Hamilton, cricketer (d.1936).
*23 May - Hamilton Lyster Reed, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Colenso, South Africa (d.1931).
*29 May - William Harman, cricketer (d.1962).
*1 August - Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, politician in Alberta, Canada (d.1951).
*30 November - James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, Unionist politician and first Governor of Northern Ireland (d.1953) [ [http://www.ilab.org/db/book718_914658.html/ Abercorn: James Hamilton] ] .
*27 December - William Harrington, cricketer (d.1940).

Deaths

*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 (b.1779).
*6 March - James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller (b.1804).
*14 March - Joseph Francis Olliffe, physician (b.1808).
*26 March - John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland (b.1807).
*31 August - Mary Ward, scientist (b.1827).

Full date unknown

*Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimea (b.1833).

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