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List of events
Events from the year 1879 in Ireland .
Events
Arts and literature
Charles Kickham 's novel Knocknagow, or The Homes of Tipperary is published.
Sport
Births
16 February –
Hubert de Burgh , cricketer and naval officer (died
1960 ).
20 March –
Terence MacSwiney , playwright and poet, member of
1st Dáil ,
Sinn Féin
Lord Mayor of Cork (died on 74th day of hunger strike,
1920 in England ).
9 April –
William Meldon , cricketer (died
1957 in England ).
20 April –
Robert Wilson Lynd , journalist and
nationalist (died
1949 in England ).
22 May –
Jack White , soldier, trade unionist, one of the co-founders of the
Irish Citizen Army (died
1946 ).
30 May –
Elizabeth Cronin , traditional singer (died
1956 ).
1 June –
Freeman Wills Crofts , detective novelist and railway engineer (died
1957 in England ).
2 June –
Patrick Keohane , navy officer, member of
Robert Falcon Scott 's Antarctic
Terra Nova Expedition (died
1950 ).
11 July –
Hugh Kennedy , only Attorney-General of
Southern Ireland , first
Attorney-General of the Irish Free State and first Chief Justice of the
Irish Free State (died
1936 ).
15 July
17 July –
Seumas O'Sullivan , poet and editor (died
1958 ).
3 August –
Mary Devenport O'Neill , poet and dramatist (died
1967 ).
20 August –
Tom Barry , hurler (
London-Irish ) (died
1969 ).
8 September –
Hugo Flinn ,
Fianna Fáil
TD (died
1943 ).
23 September –
E. Temple Thurston , poet, playwright and author (died
1933 ).
15 October –
Sara Allgood , actress (died
1950 in the United States ).
10 November –
Patrick Pearse , teacher, barrister,
poet , writer, nationalist and political activist, one of the leaders of the
Easter Rising , executed (died
1916 ).
4 December –
Hamilton Harty ,
conductor and
composer (died
1941 ).
7 December –
Austin Stack ,
Sinn Féin
MP and
TD , member of
1st Dáil (died
1929 ).
Deaths
22 January –
Nevill Coghill , posthumous recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry at the
Battle of Isandhlwana , South Africa (born
1852 ).
28 January –
Hugh McNeile ,
Anglican churchman (born
1795 ).
19 April –
Francis Kelly , surveyor, business agent, farmer, and politician in Canada (born
1803 ).
5 May –
Isaac Butt ,
Irish Conservative Party MP and founder of the
Home Rule League (born
1818 ).
17 May –
John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell , politician and
Lord Lieutenant of County Louth 1866–1879 (born
1798 ).
9 June –
Edward Butler , lawyer and politician in Australia (died
1823 ).
28 June –
John Pitt Kennedy , British military engineer, agricultural reformer and civil servant (born
1796 ).
10 July –
John Byrne , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at the
Battle of Inkerman ,
Crimea (born
1832 ).
3 September –
Walter Hamilton , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at
Futtehabad ,
Afghanistan (born
1856 ).
15 September –
Thomas Roberts Ferguson , businessman and politician in
Ontario (born
1818 ).
24 September –
John Holmes , surveyor and politician in
Ontario (born
1828 ).
29 September –
Edmund Falconer , actor-manager and dramatist (born c.
1814 ).
6 November –
Dennis Mahony , a founder of the Herald (modern-day
Telegraph Herald ) newspaper in
Dubuque, Iowa (born
1821 ).
See also
References