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List of events
Events from the year 1874 in Ireland.
Events
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Births
- 28 January –
Kathleen Lynn, physician and politician (died
1955).
- 15 February –
Ernest Shackleton,
explorer, remembered for his Antarctic expedition of 1914–1916 in the ship
Endurance (died
1922).
- 24 February –
Con Lucid,
Major League Baseball player (died
1931).
- 29 March –
Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, businessman, politician and philanthropist,
Chancellor of the University of Dublin (died
1967).
- 24 April –
Annie Moore, migrant to the United States (died c.1924).
- 25 April –
Guglielmo Marconi, inventor (born in
Bologna of Irish maternity) (died 1937)
- 29 April –
Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan, dramatist and novelist (died
1948).
- 13 May –
Percy Redfern Creed, soldier, sportsman and writer (died
1964).
- 6 June –
George Harman, cricketer and rugby player (died
1975).
- 11 June –
Arthur Gwynn, cricketer and rugby player (died
1898).
- 14 June –
Louis Lipsett,
British Army and
Canadian Expeditionary Force senior officer during the
First World War (killed in action 1918).
- 18 July –
Cathal Brugha, active in
Easter Rising,
Irish War of Independence, and
Irish Civil War and was first
Ceann Comhairle of
Dáil Éireann, shot by Free State troops (died
1922).
- 18 July –
Bob Lambert, cricketer (died
1956).
- 20 July
- 11 August –
John Philip Bagwell, general manager
Great Northern Railway,
Seanad member (died
1946).
- 17 September –
Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, soldier and politician (died
1948).
- 11 November –
Louise McIlroy, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the London School of Medicine for Women (died
1968).
- 1 December –
Michael Mallin, second in command of
Irish Citizen Army, participant in the
Easter Rising (
executed by firing squad in
Kilmainham Jail
1916).
- 18 December –
Philip Meldon, cricketer (died
1942).
- Full date unknown
-
Deaths
See also
References
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^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 377.