(died 1949). 13 July – Edward J. Flanagan, popularly known as Father Flanagan, founder of Boys Town in Nebraska (died 1948). 28 August – Pat Hone, cricketer (died 1976). 4 September – Alice Milligan, nationalist poet and author (died 1953). 4 October – Lennox Robinson, dramatist, poet and theatre director and producer (died 1958). 10 October – Louis Meldon, cricketer (died 1956). 15 November – Séamus Dwyer, Sinn Féin politician (shot 1922). 25 November – Frank MacDermot, barrister, soldier, banker and politician (died 1975). 8 December – James Geoghegan, Fianna Fáil TD, Minister for Justice, Attorney General of Ireland and Justice of the Supreme Court (died 1951). 12 December – Owen Moore, actor (died 1939). Full date unknown – W. F. McCoy, Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland (died 1976). Deaths 25 February – Lady Katherine Sophia Kane, botanist (born 1811). 12 March – Trevor Chute, British Army officer (born 1816). 28 March – Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland) (born 1807). 16 April – Andrew Nicholl, painter (born 1804). 4 May – James Muspratt, chemical manufacturer in Britain (born 1793). 11 June – James Alipius Goold, Roman Catholic Bishop and Archbishop of Melbourne (born 1812). 11 June – Thomas Francis Hendricken, first Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island (born 1827). 27 July – Eliza Lynch, former First Lady of Paraguay (born 1835). 9 August – Samuel Ferguson, poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant (born 1810). 10 October – Joseph M. Scriven, poet and philanthropist (born 1820). 10 December – Abraham Dowdney, United States Representative from New York and officer in the Union army in the American Civil War (born 1841). 19 December – Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons, physician and politician (born 1826). 30 December – George Fletcher Moore, explorer and writer (born 1798). References 1880s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 19th century in Ireland