Duke of Leinster, peer and gambler (died 1976). 7 June – Kevin O'Higgins, Minister for Justice (assassinated by Irish Republican Army 1927). 15 August – Derrick Hall, cricketer (died 1947). 17 September – Seán Óg Murphy, Cork hurler, Gaelic Athletic Association administrator (died 1956). 20 September – Patricia Collinge, actress and writer (died 1974). 15 October – James Kempster, cricketer (died 1975). 20 October – Eoin O'Duffy, first leader of Fine Gael and the Blueshirts, leader of Irish volunteers on the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War (died 1944). 14 November – Nora Connolly O'Brien, political activist, daughter of James Connolly (born in Edinburgh; died 1981). 26 November – Mike McTigue, boxer, light heavyweight champion of the world 1923–1925 (died 1966). 24 December – Claude Nunney, Canadian Expeditionary Force soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1918 on the Drocourt-Queant Line, France (born in Hastings; died of wounds 1918). Full date unknown Eamon Bulfin, Irish republican (born in Argentina; died 1968). Eamon Martin, a founder of Fianna Éireann and an Irish Volunteer fighting in the Easter Rising (died 1971). Deaths 26 January – Bernard Diamond, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Bolandshahr, India (born 1827). 3 February – "Roaring" Hugh Hanna, Evangelical preacher (born 1821). 5 February – John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri (born 1805). 29 February – John Lucas, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1861 in New Zealand (born 1826). 8 May – James Thomson, engineer and physicist (born 1822). 17 May – William Walsh, U.S. Congressman in Maryland (born 1828). 29 May – Richard Charles Mayne, British admiral, explorer and MP (born 1835). 31 May – John Kean, businessman and politician in Ontario (born 1820). 2 June – Robert Templeton, naturalist, artist and entomologist (born 1802). August – John Doyle, soldier at the Charge of the Light Brigade (b. c1828). 29 October – William Harnett, painter (born 1848). 30 November – Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer (born 1828). References 1890s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 19th century in Ireland Ireland