Events from the year 1879 in Ireland .
Events
Arts and literature
Charles Kickham 's novel Knocknagow, or The Homes of Tipperary is published.
Sport
Births
16 February – Hubert de Burgh , cricketer and naval officer (died 1960 ).
20 March – Terence MacSwiney , playwright and poet, member of 1st Dáil , Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork (died on 74th day of hunger strike, 1920 in England ).
9 April – William Meldon , cricketer (died 1957 in England ).
20 April – Robert Wilson Lynd , journalist and nationalist (died 1949 in England ).
22 May – Jack White , soldier, trade unionist, one of the co-founders of the Irish Citizen Army (died 1946 ).
30 May – Elizabeth Cronin , traditional singer (died 1956 ).
1 June – Freeman Wills Crofts , detective novelist and railway engineer (died 1957 in England ).
2 June – Patrick Keohane , navy officer, member of Robert Falcon Scott 's Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition (died 1950 ).
11 July – Hugh Kennedy , only Attorney-General of Southern Ireland , first Attorney-General of the Irish Free State and first Chief Justice of the Irish Free State (died 1936 ).
15 July
17 July – Seumas O'Sullivan , poet and editor (died 1958 ).
3 August – Mary Devenport O'Neill , poet and dramatist (died 1967 ).
20 August – Tom Barry , hurler (London-Irish ) (died 1969 ).
8 September – Hugo Flinn , Fianna Fáil TD (died 1943 ).
23 September – E. Temple Thurston , poet, playwright and author (died 1933 ).
15 October – Sara Allgood , actress (died 1950 in the United States ).
10 November – Patrick Pearse , teacher, barrister, poet , writer, nationalist and political activist, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising , executed (died 1916 ).
4 December – Hamilton Harty , conductor and composer (died 1941 ).
7 December – Austin Stack , Sinn Féin MP and TD , member of 1st Dáil (died 1929 ). Full date unknown
Deaths
22 January – Nevill Coghill , posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Isandhlwana , South Africa (born 1852 ).
28 January – Hugh McNeile , Anglican churchman (born 1795 ).
19 April – Francis Kelly , surveyor, business agent, farmer, and politician in Canada (born 1803 ).
5 May – Isaac Butt , Irish Conservative Party MP and founder of the Home Rule League (born 1818 ).
17 May – John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell , politician and Lord Lieutenant of County Louth 1866–1879 (born 1798 ).
9 June – Edward Butler , lawyer and politician in Australia (died 1823 ).
28 June – John Pitt Kennedy , British military engineer, agricultural reformer and civil servant (born 1796 ).
10 July – John Byrne , soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at the Battle of Inkerman , Crimea (born 1832 ).
3 September – Walter Hamilton , soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Futtehabad , Afghanistan (born 1856 ).
15 September – Thomas Roberts Ferguson , businessman and politician in Ontario (born 1818 ).
24 September – John Holmes , surveyor and politician in Ontario (born 1828 ).
29 September – Edmund Falconer , actor-manager and dramatist (born c. 1814 ).
6 November – Dennis Mahony , a founder of the Herald (modern-day Telegraph Herald Dubuque, Iowa (born 1821 ).
See also
References
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