1868 in Ireland

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Events from the year1868 in Ireland.

Events

TheArdagh Chalice:made in the 8th century, buried c. 1740 and rediscovered in 1868.

• January – American transport entrepreneurGeorge Francis Trainis arrested inCorkfor debt and spends much of the year imprisoned in Ireland.
• 26 May –Michael Barrett,member of theFenians,hangedoutside the walls ofNewgate PrisoninLondonfor his part in theClerkenwell explosionof1867.He will be the last person publicly executed in theUnited Kingdom.
• 13 July – Representation of the People (Ireland) Act extends the franchise in parliamentary boroughs.
• 15 July – foundation stone ofSt Colman's Cathedral, Cobh,laid.
• August – meteorological observatory set up onValentia Island.
• late September – theArdagh Hoardis discovered atArdagh Fort,County Limerick.
• 18 December –Thomas O'Haganis appointedLord Chancellor of Ireland,the firstRoman Catholicto hold the chancellorship since the reign ofJames II.
• Methodist College Belfastopens to pupils.

Sport

Hare coursing

• Waterloo Cupwon byMaster McGrath.

Births

• 26 January –Beatrice Hill-Lowe,archer (died1951).
• 2 February –Frederic Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown,peer (died1946).
• 4 February –Constance Gore-Booth(later Markievicz),Sinn FéinandFianna FáilTD,member of1st Dáil,Cabinet Minister (died1927).
• 7 February –Aleen Cust,veterinary surgeon (died 1937 visiting Jamaica).
• 14 April –Annie S. D. Maunder,née Russell, astronomer (died1947).
• 25 April –Willie Maley,Association football player and manager (died1958 in Scotland).
• 1 May –George F. O'Shaunessy,DemocratU.S. RepresentativefromRhode Island(died1934).
• 7 May –John MacBride,republican (executed1916).
• 26 May –Richard Maunsell,steam locomotive designer (died 1944 in Ireland).
• 5 June –James Connolly,socialist, trade unionist, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader (executed1916).
• 7 June –John Sealy Townsend,mathematical physicist (died1957).
• 23 June –Francis Browning,cricketer (died1916).
• 9 August –Patrick McKenna,Roman CatholicBishop of Clogher,1909–1942 (died1942).
• 14 September –Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran,Anglo-Irishpeer and soldier (died1958).

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  • P. J. Brady,Irish Nationalist Member ofUK ParliamentforDublin St Stephen’s Green(died1943).

Deaths

• 9 January –John Henry Hopkins,firstbishopofEpiscopal Diocese of Vermontand eighthPresiding Bishopof theEpiscopal Church in the United States of America(born1792).
• 7 February – AdmiralTheobald Jones,lichenologist and Unionist politician (born1790).
• 19 February –Dominick Daly,Governor of Prince Edward Island,laterGovernor of South Australia(born1798).
• 7 April –D'Arcy McGee,journalist, politician inCanada,assassinated (born1825).
• 21 April –Henry James O'Farrell,hanged inAustraliafor attempted assassination ofPrince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
• 19 May –Benjamin Guinness,brewer and philanthropist (born1798).
• 26 May –Michael Barrett,Fenian(executed).
• 17 June –Samuel Hill Lawrence,recipient of theVictoria Crossfor gallantry in 1857 atLucknow,India(born1831).
• 25 June –Alexander Mitchell,engineer andinventorof thescrew-pile lighthouse(born1780).
• 26 July –Peter Gill,recipient of theVictoria Crossfor gallantry in 1857 inBenares,India(born1831).
• 3 August –Charles Graham Halpine,journalist, editor and author (born1829).
• 20 August –Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham,politician and peer (born1799).
• 26 December –Richard Mayne,barrister and joint firstCommissioner of Police of the Metropolis,head of theLondonMetropolitan Police(1829–1868) (born1796).

See also

• 1868 in Scotland
• 1868 in Wales