1873 in Ireland

Events from the year 1873 in Ireland.

Events

• February – Irish Home Rule Movement: Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain founded in Manchester.
• March – Gladstone's Irish University Bill defeated in the House of Commons.
• May 4 – the Roman Catholic St Eugene's Cathedral, Derry, is dedicated.
• November 18–21 – Irish Home Rule Movement: The Home Government Association reconstitutes itself as the Home Rule League.

Arts and literature

Sport

• October – foundation of County Carlow Football Club, Rugby Union Club

Births

• 9 January – John Flanagan, three-time Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw (died 1938).
• 17 January – T. C. Murray, dramatist (died 1959).
• 27 January – Alexander Young, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Ruiterskraal, South Africa, killed in action (died 1916).
• 1 February – John Barry, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Monument Hill, South Africa (died 1901).
• 20 March – Cecil Lowry-Corry, 6th Earl Belmore, High Sheriff and councillor (died 1949).
• 29 March (bapt.) – Peig Sayers (Máiréad Sayers), seanchaí (traditional storyteller) (died 1958).
• 30 March – William Lyle, 1940s Member of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for Queen's University of Belfast (died 1949)
• 19 April – Thomas Crean, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Tygerkloof Spruit, South Africa (died 1923).
• 5 May – Lucius Gwynn, cricketer (died 1902).
• 18 May – J. B. Fagan, actor-manager (died 1933 in Hollywood)
• 28 May – D. D. Sheehan, journalist, barrister, author, Irish Parliamentary Party MP, one of four MP's to serve in 16th (Irish) Division in World War I (died 1948).
• 3 June – Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet, barrister, member of Seanad (died 1956).
• 14 June – William Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse, soldier (died 1918).
• 22 July James Cousins, poet and writer (died 1956).
• 6 August – James O'Mara, Irish Parliamentary Party and Sinn Féin MP (died 1948).
• 2 September – James Duhig, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane (died 1965).
• 26 September – Annie M. P. Smithson, nurse, novelist, poet and Nationalist (died 1948).
• 30 October – Dave Gallaher, rugby player for New Zealand, killed at the Battle of Passchendaele (died 1917).
• 26 November – Tom Sharkey, boxer (died 1953).
• 5 December – William Crozier, cricketer (died 1916).
• 9 December – James McCombs, politician in New Zealand (died 1933).
• 12 December – Lola Ridge, anarchist poet and editor (died 1941).

Deaths

• Early – Master McGrath, greyhound (born 1866).
• 7 February – Sheridan Le Fanu, novelist (born 1814).
• 20 February – James Haughton, social reformer and temperance activist (born 1795).
• 28 March – John Watts, military officer, architect in Australia (born 1786).
• 30 March – Richard Church, soldier, military officer and general in the Greek Army (born 1784).
• 8 April – Charles Irwin, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1824).

See also

• 1873 in Scotland
• 1873 in Wales

References

External links

• County|Carlow Football Club

1. 1873
2. Home Rule League
3. Irish University Bill
4. Panic of 1873
5. Irish Terrier
6. Judicature Act
7. Return of Owners of Land, 1873
8. 1873 in Scotland
9. Long Depression
10. List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1873
11. Grace Marks
12. Thomas Hartley Montgomery
13. Fagan
14. Ireland (surname)
15. 1873 in Wales
16. Sheehan
17. Peig Sayers
18. Irish Nationwide Building Society
19. Petitions of Right Act 1860
20. Daniel Sheehan