– Seán McLoughlin, nationalist and communist activist (died 1960). 16 June – Warren Lewis, soldier and historian, brother of C. S. Lewis (died 1973). 28 July – John Charles McQuaid, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland (died 1973). 3 August – James Samuel Emerson, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry (killed 1917 on the Hindenburg Line north of La Vacquerie, France). 3 October – Phelim Calleary, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1974). 24 October – Lady Constance Mary Annesley, afterwards Constance Malleson, writer and actress (as Colette O'Niel) (died 1975). 10 December – Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (died 1975). Full date unknown Max Dunn, poet (died 1963 in Australia). Florence O'Donoghue, historian and Irish Republican Army intelligence officer (died 1967). Deaths 5 February – Robert Montresor Rogers, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (born 1834). 11 May – Patrick Carlin, Victoria Cross recipient for gallantry in 1858 in India (born 1832). 14 August – Thomas Hovenden, artist and teacher (born 1840). 12 October – Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander, hymn-writer and poet (born 1818). 26 November – George Edward Dobson, zoologist, photographer and army surgeon (born 1848). References 1890s in Ireland Ireland Ireland Years of the 19th century in Ireland