1874 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1874 in Ireland.

Events

• 17 February — United Kingdom general election in Ireland in which 59 professing members of the Home Rule League are returned.
• 24 May — Queen Victoria creates her third eldest son, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, after the province of Connaught.
• 26 July — The Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Sligo, is opened.

Births

January to June

• 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 University of Dublin (died 1967).
• 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 (died 1918).

July to December

• 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 — Monsignor Michael J. O'Doherty, Archbishop of Manila, (died 1949)
• 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).
• 18 December — Philip Meldon, cricketer (died 1942).

Full date unknown

• Patrick Hannon, Conservative and Unionist Party (UK) politician (died 1963).
• Jer Doheny, Kilkenny hurler (died 1929).
• Eamonn Duggan, lawyer, nationalist and politician (died 1936).
• Michael Mallin, second in command of Irish Citizen Army, participant in the Easter Rising (executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail 1916).
• Annie Moore, migrant to the United States (died c.1924).

Deaths

• April — Biddy Early, traditional healer (born c. 1798).
• 26 July — Abraham Brewster, judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (born 1796).
• 27 August — John Henry Foley, sculptor (born 1818).
• 30 August — Michael Banim, writer (born 1796).
• 17 September — Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy, politician (born 1815).
• 21 September — Arthur Jacob, ophthalmologist (born 1790).
• 17 October — John Benson, architect for Irish Industrial Exhibition, Great Industrial Exhibition (1853) and the 1855 Cork Opera House (born 1812).