Events from the year 1861 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
- 23 January â Katharine Tynan, novelist and poet (died 1931).
- 6 February â George Tyrrell, expelled Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (died 1909).
- 19 March â Joseph MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (died 1945).
- 15 April â William Hoey Kearney Redmond, nationalist politician, barrister, brother of John Redmond, killed in Battle of Messines (died 1917).
- 21 June â Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer (died 1881).
- 16 October â J. B. Bury, historian, classical scholar and philologist (died 1927).
- 3 November â Thomas O'Brien Butler, composer (died 1915 in the sinking of RMS Lusitania).
- 5 November â Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet, cricketer (died 1948).
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Frank Duffy, labour leader in America (died 1955).
- :*Nathaniel Hill, artist (died 1934).
- :*Leonard Greenham Star Molloy, soldier, doctor, M.P. (died 1937)
Deaths
See also
References