(died 1953) Louisa Watson Peat, writer and lecturer (died 1953 in the United States) Deaths 9 February – Henry John Stephen Smith, mathematician (died 1826). 26 May – Edward Sabine, astronomer, scientist, ornithologist and explorer (born 1788). 25 July – Frederick Edward Maning, writer and judge in New Zealand (born 1812). 22 October – Thomas Mayne Reid, novelist (born 1818). 24 November – William Fitzgerald, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (born 1814). 17 December – James Carey, Fenian and informer, executed in London (born 1845). Full date unknown Robert Dwyer Joyce, music collector and writer (born 1830). References 1880s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 19th century in Ireland Ireland