1871 in Ireland
Events from the year 1871 in Ireland.Events
Sport
Hare coursing
- Waterloo Cup won by Master McGrath for the third time.
Births
- 8 January – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
- 14 January – A. M. Sullivan, lawyer.
- 16 January – Valentine McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee, Labour MP in the United Kingdom.
- 19 January – Frederick Barton Maurice, soldier, military correspondent, writer and academic, founded the British Legion in 1920.
- 13 February – Joseph Devlin, Nationalist politician and MP in the British House of Commons and in Northern Ireland.
- 30 March – William Lyle, medical practitioner and Ulster Unionist Party politician.
- 16 April – John Millington Synge, dramatist, poet and writer.
- 18 April – Frederick Field, Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord.
- ? May – Elinor Darwin, née Monsell, engraver and portrait painter.
- 17 July – John Miller Andrews, second Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
- 30 August – James Nathaniel Halbert, entomologist.
- 30 November – Thomas O'Donnell, barrister, judge, Irish Nationalist, MP.
- November – Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist politician and journalist.
Deaths
- 2 January – Samuel Blackall, soldier, politician and second Governor of Queensland, Australia.
- 3 February – James Sheridan Muspratt, research chemist and teacher.
- 20 February – Paul Kane, painter in Canada.
- 1 March – Anthony Coningham Sterling, British Army officer and historian.
- 4 July – James Duffy, author and publisher.
- 2 October – Sir Thomas Deane, architect.
- 6 October – Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer.
- 30 November – John T. Mills, lawyer and Supreme Court Justice for the Republic of Texas.
- 8 December – James Murray, physician
- 15 December – John George, politician, judge and in 1859 Solicitor-General for Ireland.
