1869 in Ireland

Events

• July 26 – the royal assent is given to the Irish Church Act, disestablishing the Church of Ireland with effect from 1871 and abolishing payment of tithe, the legislation having passed through the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and House of Lords.
• August 31 – scientist Mary Ward is killed in a steam car accident at Parsonstown, Ireland's first victim of a mechanically propelled road vehicle.
• Anti-Irish riots at Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley of Wales result in one death.

  Sport

Hare coursing

• Waterloo Cup won by Master McGrath.

  Yachting

• The Royal Ulster Yacht Club of Bangor, County Down, receives its royal warrant.

  Births

• 16 March – Peter Maher, boxer.
• 27 March – James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State.
• 26 April – Lowry Hamilton, cricketer.
• 19 May – John Wheatley, socialist politician
• 23 May – Hamilton Lyster Reed, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Colenso, South Africa.
• 29 May – William Harman, cricketer.
• 1 August – Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, politician in Alberta, Canada.
• 6 August – David McKee Wright, poet.
• 30 November – James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, Unionist politician and first Governor of Northern Ireland.
• 27 December – William Harrington, cricketer.
• Helen Boyle, physician and psychologist

  Deaths

• 30 January – William Carleton, writer.
• 11 February – Patrick J. Whelan, tailor and alleged Fenian sympathizer, convicted of assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee in 1868, hanged.
• 2 March – Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, British Field Marshal.
• 6 March – James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller.
• 14 March – Joseph Francis Olliffe, physician.
• 26 March – John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland.
• 31 August – Mary Ward, scientist.
• 10 June – Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimea.