1870 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1870 in Ireland.

Events

• 19 May — The Home Government Association is established by Isaac Butt to argue for devolution for Ireland and repeal of the Act of Union.^[1]
• 27 August — White Star's first ocean liner RMS Oceanic is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
• First Irish Land Act passed in an attempt to secure greater security of tenure for landholders.^[2]
• The building of Belfast Castle is completed, to a design 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.
• First service is held in the new Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork (Church of Ireland).
• Belfast Hebrew Congregation is established.

Arts and literature

• The Water Colour Society of Ireland is founded as the Amateur Drawing Society by an informal group of six well-connected women from County Waterford.^[3]

Births

• 8 February — Beatrice Grimshaw, anthropologist (died 1953 in Australia).
• 8 February — Robert Pilkington, lawyer and politician in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly and British House of Commons (died 1942 in England).
• 2 April — Edmund Dwyer-Gray, politician and 29th Premier of Tasmania in 1939 (died 1945 in Australia).
• 17 April — Robert Tressell, born Robert Croker, radical, author of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (died 1911 in England).
• 5 May — Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore, High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant of County Fermanagh (died 1948).
• 25 June — Robert Erskine Childers, writer, nationalist, executed by Free State firing squad at the Beggar's Bush Barracks in Dublin (died 1922).
• 16 July — Lambert McKenna, Jesuit priest and writer (died 1956).
• 19 November — William MacCarthy-Morrogh, cricketer (died 1939).
• November — Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist MP (died 1937).
• Undated
  • P. T. Daly, trade unionist (died 1943).
  • R. A. Stewart Macalister, archaeologist (died 1950).

Deaths

• 17 March — John Keegan Casey, "poet of the Fenians" (born 1846).
• 25 April — Daniel Maclise, painter (born 1806).
• 31 May — Chartres Brew, Gold commissioner, Chief Constable and judge in the Colony of British Columbia (died 1815).
• 7 September — Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea (born 1833).
• 23 September — Thomas McCarthy, businessman and politician in Quebec (born 1832).
• 20 October — Michael William Balfe, composer (born 1808).
• 9 December — Patrick MacDowell, sculptor (born 1799).
• 12 December — Martin Cregan, portrait painter (born 1788).
• Undated — John Skipton Mulvany, architect (born 1813).

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