1872 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown

[edit] Events

• Ulster Hospital for Women and Sick Children is opened in Chichester Street, Belfast.

[edit] Arts and literature

• Sheridan Le Fanu publishes short-story collection In a Glass Darkly.

[edit] Sport

[edit] Births

• 14 February - Tom Ross, cricketer (d.1947).
• 31 March - Arthur Griffith, founder and third leader of Sinn Féin, served as President of Dáil Éireann (d.1922).
• 13 June - Blayney Hamilton, cricketer (d.1946).
• 16 July - George Henry Morris, soldier, first commanding officer to lead an Irish Guards battalion into battle, killed in action (d.1914).
• 23 July - John J. McGrath, Democrat U.S. Representative from California (d.1951).
• 13 August - Robert Johnston, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Elandslaagte, South Africa (d.1950).
• 4 September - James Magee, cricketer (d.1949).
• 23 September - Dan Comyn, cricketer (d.1949).
• 13 November - John M. Lyle, architect in Canada (d.1945).
• 28 November - Ethel Hobday, pianist.

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• Patrick R. Chalmers, writer (d.1942).
• Joseph Devlin, Nationalist politician and MP in the British House of Commons and in Northern Ireland (d.1934).

[edit] Deaths

• 8 February - Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three times Chief Secretary for Ireland, Viceroy of India, assassinated (b.1822).
• 1 June - Charles Lever, novelist (b.1806).
• 18 October - Michael O'Connor, first Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, first Catholic Bishop of Erie, Jesuit (b.1810).
• 23 November - Joseph Ward, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Gwalior, India (b.1832).

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• Robert Patterson, businessman and naturalist (b.1802).