1879 in Ireland

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See also: 1878 in Ireland, 1880 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Events

• 20 April - First of many "monster meetings" of tenant farmers held in Irishtown near Claremorris, County Mayo.
• 8 June - Charles Stewart Parnell at Westport, County Mayo meeting.^[1]
• 16 August - Land League of Mayo founded at Castlebar.^[1]
• 21 October - Irish National Land League founded at Dublin.^[1]
• Repeal of Convention Act of 1793.^[1]
• Start of the Land War.^[1]

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Births

• 20 March - Terence MacSwiney, playwright and poet, member of 1st Dáil, Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, died on 74th day of hunger strike (d.1920).
• 9 April - William Meldon, cricketer (d.1957).
• 1 June - Freeman Wills Crofts, novelist (d.1957).
• 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 (d.1936).
• 15 July - Joseph Campbell, poet and lyricist (d.1944).
• 17 July - Seamus O'Sullivan, poet and editor (d.1958).
• 3 August - Mary Devenport O'Neill, poet and dramatist (d.1967).
• 23 September - E. Temple Thurston, poet, playwright and author (d.1933).
• 31 October - Sara Allgood, actress (d.1950).
• 10 November - Patrick Pearse, teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising, executed (d.1916).
• 4 December - Hamilton Harty, conductor and composer (d.1941).
• 7 December - Austin Stack, Sinn Féin MP and TD, member of 1st Dáil (d.1929).
• Margaret Buckley, president of Sinn Féin from 1937 to 1950 (d.1962).
• Joseph Campbell, poet and lyricist (d.1944).
• Robert Wilson Lynd, writer (d.1949).
• Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (d.1927).

[edit] Deaths

• 22 January - Nevill Coghill, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Isandhlwana, South Africa (b.1852).
• 17 May - John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell, politician and Lord Lieutenant of County Louth 1866-1879. (b.1798).

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds) (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork, Ireland: The Mercier Press, p 378.