Events from the year 1869 in Ireland.
Events
Sport
Hare coursing
Yachting
Births
- 16 March â Peter Maher, boxer (died 1940).
- 27 March â James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State (died 1938).
- 26 April â Lowry Hamilton, cricketer (died 1936).
- 19 May â John Wheatley, socialist politician (died 1930 in Scotland)
- 23 May â Hamilton Lyster Reed, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Colenso, South Africa (died 1931).
- 29 May â William Harman, cricketer (died 1962).
- 1 August â Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, politician in Alberta, Canada (died 1951).
- 6 August â David McKee Wright, poet (died 1928 in Australia).
- 30 November â James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, Unionist politician and first Governor of Northern Ireland (died 1953).
- 27 December â William Harrington, cricketer (died 1940).
- Helen Boyle, physician and psychologist (died 1957 in England)
Deaths
- 30 January â William Carleton, writer (born 1794).
- 11 February â Patrick J. Whelan, tailor and alleged Fenian sympathizer, convicted of assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee in 1868, hanged (b. c1840).
- 2 March â Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, British Field Marshal (born 1779).
- 6 March â James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller (born 1804).
- 14 March â Joseph Francis Olliffe, physician (born 1808).
- 26 March â John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland (born 1807).
- 31 August â Mary Ward, scientist (born 1827).
- 10 June â Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimea (born 1833; died in Liverpool).
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