and Founder of Fianna Fáil, born in Manhattan, New York (died 1975). 21 October – George Gavan Duffy, barrister, Sinn Féin MP (died 1951). 20 November – John Aston, cricketer (died 1951). 21 November– Thomas J. O'Connell, trade unionist, Labour Party leader, TD and Senator (died 1969). Full date unknown Anthony Mulvey, editor and Nationalist Party MP (died 1957). Thomas Sadleir, genealogist (died 1957). Deaths 28 February – John Thomas Romney Robinson, astronomer and physicist (born 1792). 7 April – Denis Florence MacCarthy, poet, translator, biographer (born 1817). 17 April – Michael Hannan, Archbishop in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax, Nova Scotia (born 1821). 6 May – Thomas Henry Burke, Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office, assassinated in the Phoenix Park Murders (born 1829). 15 November – Patrick Murray, theologian (born 1811). 9 December – Sir Joseph Napier, 1st Baronet, Conservative Party MP and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (born 1804). Full date unknown J. J. McCarthy, architect (born 1817). References 1880s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 19th century in Ireland