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List of events
Events from the year 1875 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
- 8 February –
Valentine O'Hara, author and authority on Russia and the
Baltic States (died
1945).
- 14 March –
Patrick McLane,
Democratic member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
Pennsylvania (died
1946).
- 10 April –
Joseph McGuinness,
Sinn Féin
MP and
TD, member of the
1st Dáil (died
1922).
- 17 April –
John Brunskill, cricketer (died
1940).
- 18 April –
Katherine Thurston, née Katherine Cecil Madden, novelist (died
1911).
- 22 April – Michael Joseph O'Rahilly,
The O'Rahilly,
republican (killed during
Easter Rising
1916).
- 28 May –
Denis O'Donnell, entrepreneur (died
1933)
- 24 June –
Forrest Reid, novelist and literary critic (died
1947)
- 5 July –
Lawrence Bulger, international rugby union player (died
1928).
- 7 August –
Kate Meyrick, née Nason, nightclub owner in London (died 1933 in England).
- 29 August –
Robert Forde, Antarctic explorer (died
1959).
- 12 September –
George Edward Pugin Meldon, cricketer (died
1950).
- 9 November –
Hugh Lane, founder of
Dublin's
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art (died on
RMS Lusitania
1915).
Deaths
- 21 January –
Sir Alexander McDonnell, 1st Baronet, lawyer, civil servant and commissioner of national education in Ireland (born
1794).
- 26 January –
Patrick Leahy,
Archbishop of Cashel (born
1806).
- 20 March –
John Mitchel, nationalist activist, solicitor and journalist (born
1815).
- 29 April –
William Nash, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at
Lucknow, India (born
1824).
- 13 May –
John Willoughby Crawford, politician and third
Lieutenant Governor of
Ontario (born
1817).
- 15 May –
James O'Reilly, lawyer and politician in Canada (born
1823).
- 25 May –
Rose La Touche, muse of
John Ruskin (born
1848).
- 3 June –
Patrick Graham, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at
Lucknow, India (born
1837).
- 3 June –
Miles Gerard Keon, journalist, novelist, colonial secretary and lecturer (born
1821).
- 13 July –
William Coffey, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at
Sebastopol, the
Crimea (born
1829).
- 22 September –
Charles Bianconi, Italian-born carriage proprietor (born 1786).
- 24 October –
Reverend William Hickey, writer and philanthropist (born
1787).
- 9 December –
Sir Thomas Burke, 3rd Baronet, landowner and politician (born
1813).
- 27 December –
Henry Hamilton O'Hara "Mad O'hara", "The Mad Squire of Craigbilly" (born
1820).
See also
References