1870 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths

Events

• The building of Belfast Castle is completed, designed by Charles Lanyon and his son.
• Work is completed on the building of the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial to Queen Victoria's late Prince Consort, Prince Albert.
• Belfast Hebrew Congregation is established.

Arts and literature

Sport

Births

• 8 February - Robert Pilkington, lawyer and politician who sat in Western Australian Legislative Assembly and British House of Commons (d.1942).
• 2 April - Edmund Dwyer-Gray, politician and 29th Premier of Tasmania in 1939 (d.1945).
• 17 April - Robert Tressell, writer and author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (d.1911).
• 5 May - Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore, High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant of County Fermanagh (d.1948).
• 25 June - Robert Erskine Childers, writer, nationalist, executed by Free State firing squad at the Beggar's Bush Barracks in Dublin (d.1922).
• 16 July - Lambert McKenna, Jesuit priest and writer (d.1956).
• 19 November - William MacCarthy-Morrogh, cricketer (d.1939).
• November - Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist MP (d.1937).

Full date unknown

• R. A. Stewart Macalister, archaeologist (d.1950).

Deaths

• 17 March - John Keegan Casey, "poet of the Fenians" (b. 1846).
• 25 April - Daniel Maclise, painter (b. 1806).
• 31 May - Chartres Brew, Gold commissioner, Chief Constable and judge in the Colony of British Columbia (d.1815).
• 7 September - Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea (b.1833).
• 23 September - Thomas McCarthy, businessman and politician in Quebec (b.1832).
• 20 October - Michael William Balfe, composer (b.1808).
• 9 December - Patrick MacDowell, sculptor (b.1799).

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