1869 in Ireland

none 1869 Events from the year 1869 in Ireland. Events July 26 – royal assent is given to the Irish Church Act 1869, 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.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 290–291 0-7126-5616-2Freeman's Journal. 27 July 1869. p.2. August – anti-Irish riots at Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley of Wales result in one death. August 31 – scientist Mary Ward is killed in a steam car accident at Parsonstown,King's County Chronicle 1869-09-01 Appalling Accident: Sudden Death of the Hon. Mrs. Ward Ireland's first victim of a mechanically propelled road vehicle. Sport Hare coursing Waterloo Cup won by Master McGrath. Yachting The Royal Ulster Yacht Club of Bangor, County Down, receives its royal warrant.Duke of Edinburgh visits Royal Ulster Yacht Club in Bangor http://www.nio.gov.uk/duke-of-edinburgh-visits-royal-ulster-yacht-club-in-bangor/media-detail.htm?newsID=12808 2006-03-03 Northern Ireland Office 2012-09-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20120208071928/http://www.nio.gov.uk/duke-of-edinburgh-visits-royal-ulster-yacht-club-in-bangor/media-detail.htm?newsID=12808 2012-02-08 dead Births 16 March – Peter Maher, boxer (died 1940). 27 March – James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State (died 1938). 26 April – Lowry Hamilton, cricketer (died 1936). 19 May – John Wheatley, socialist politician (died 1930 in Scotland) 23 May – Hamilton Lyster Reed, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Colenso, South Africa (died 1931). 29 May – William Harman, cricketer (died 1962). 1 August – Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, politician in Alberta, Canada (died 1951). 6 August – David McKee Wright, poet (died 1928 in Australia). 30 November – James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, Unionist politician and first Governor of Northern Ireland (died 1953).Abercorn: James HamiltonFebruary 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes 27 December – William Harrington, cricketer (died 1940). Helen Boyle, physician and psychologist (died 1957 in England) Deaths 30 January – William Carleton, writer (born 1794). 11 February – Patrick J. Whelan, tailor and alleged Fenian sympathizer, convicted of assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee in 1868, hanged (b. c1840). 2 March – Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, British Field Marshal (born 1779). 6 March – James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller (born 1804). 14 March – Joseph Francis Olliffe, physician (born 1808). 26 March – John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland (born 1807). 31 August – Mary Ward, scientist (born 1827). 10 June – Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimea (born 1833; died in Liverpool). See also 1869 in Scotland 1869 in Wales References Category:1860s in Ireland Ireland Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland