Events from the year 1868 in Ireland.
Events
Sport
Hare coursing
Births
- 26 January â Beatrice Hill-Lowe, archer (died 1951).
- 2 February â Frederic Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown, peer (died 1946).
- 4 February â Constance Gore-Booth (later Markievicz), Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil TD, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister (died 1927).
- 7 February â Aleen Cust, veterinary surgeon (died 1937 visiting Jamaica).
- 14 April â Annie S. D. Maunder, née Russell, astronomer (died 1947).
- 25 April â Willie Maley, Association football player and manager (died 1958 in Scotland).
- 1 May â George F. O'Shaunessy, Democrat U.S. Representative from Rhode Island (died 1934).
- 7 May â John MacBride, republican (executed 1916).
- 26 May â Richard Maunsell, steam locomotive designer (died 1944 in Ireland).
- 5 June â James Connolly, socialist, trade unionist, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader (executed 1916).
- 7 June â John Sealy Townsend, mathematical physicist (died 1957).
- 23 June â Francis Browning, cricketer (died 1916).
- 9 August â Patrick McKenna, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, 1909âÂÂ1942 (died 1942).
- 14 September â Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (died 1958).
- ;Full date unknown
- :*P. J. Brady, Irish Nationalist Member of UK Parliament for Dublin St Stephen's Green (died 1943).
Deaths
- 9 January â John Henry Hopkins, first bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (born 1792).
- 7 February â Admiral Theobald Jones, lichenologist and Unionist politician (born 1790).
- 19 February â Dominick Daly, Governor of Prince Edward Island, later Governor of South Australia (born 1798).
- 7 April â D'Arcy McGee, journalist, politician in Canada, assassinated (born 1825).
- 21 April â Henry James O'Farrell, hanged in Australia for attempted assassination of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
- 19 May â Benjamin Guinness, brewer and philanthropist (born 1798).
- 26 May â Michael Barrett, Fenian (executed).
- 17 June â Samuel Hill Lawrence, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1831).
- 25 June â Alexander Mitchell, engineer and inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse (born 1780).
- 26 July â Peter Gill, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 in Benares, India (born 1831).
- 3 August â Charles Graham Halpine, journalist, editor and author (born 1829).
- 20 August â Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, politician and peer (born 1799).
- 26 December â Richard Mayne, barrister and joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police (1829–1868) (born 1796).
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