Brady, Irish Nationalist Member of UK Parliament for Dublin St Stephen’s Green (died 1943). 14 September – Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (died 1958).9 August – Patrick McKenna, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, 1909–1942 (died 1942).23 June – Francis Browning, cricketer (died 1916).7 June – John Sealy Townsend, mathematical physicist (died 1957).5 June – James Connolly, socialist, trade unionist, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader (executed 1916).26 May – Richard Maunsell, steam locomotive designer (died 1944 in Ireland).7 May – John MacBride, republican (executed 1916).Representative from Rhode Island (died 1934). 25 April – Willie Maley, Association football player and manager (died 1958 in Scotland).Maunder, née Russell, astronomer (died 1947). 7 February – Aleen Cust, veterinary surgeon (died 1937 visiting Jamaica).4 February – Constance Gore-Booth (later Markievicz), Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil TD, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister (died 1927).2 February – Frederic Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown, peer (died 1946).26 January – Beatrice Hill-Lowe, archer (died 1951).18 December – Thomas O'Hagan is appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the first Roman Catholic to hold the chancellorship since the reign of James II.late September – the Ardagh Hoard is discovered at Ardagh Fort, County Limerick.August – meteorological observatory set up on Valentia Island.15 July – foundation stone of St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh, laid.13 July – Representation of the People (Ireland) Act extends the franchise in parliamentary boroughs.He will be the last person publicly executed in the United Kingdom. 26 May – Michael Barrett, member of the Fenians, hanged outside the walls of Newgate Prison in London for his part in the Clerkenwell explosion of 1867.January – American transport entrepreneur George Francis Train is arrested in Cork for debt and spends much of the year imprisoned in Ireland.
The Ardagh Chalice: made in the 8th century, buried c.
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