1971). 22 August – Seán MacEntee, Fianna Fáil TD and Tánaiste from 1959 to 1965 (died 1984). 28 September – Seán Keating, painter (died 1977). 17 November James Duffy, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 at Kereina Peak, Palestine (died 1969). Séamus Ó Grianna, writer (died 1969). 20 November – Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, New York-born novelist (died 1928). 24 November – James Macauley, soccer player (died 1945). 1 December – Michael Hayes, Pro-Treaty TD, Cabinet Minister, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann member (died 1976). 24 December – Patrick MacGill, journalist, poet and novelist (died 1963). Full date unknown Joan de Sales La Terriere, born Joan Grubb, socialite, equestrienne and divorcée (died 1968). Deaths 23 January – Michael Joseph Barry, poet (born 1817). 9 February – Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia (born 1827). 29 February – Richard Pigott, newspaper editor, suicide (born 1835. 16 March – Hans Crocker, lawyer and Wisconsin politician (born 1815). 13 April – Thomas Lane, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (born 1836). 10 May – Edward Jennings, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (b. c.1820). 31 May – Charles Lanyon, architect (born 1813 in England). 8 June – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit poet and scholar (born 1844 in England). 19 July – Patrick Green, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (born 1824). 6 October – Hans Garrett Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1877 at Komgha, South Africa (born 1830). 21 October – John Ball, politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller (born 1818). 18 November – William Allingham, poet and diarist (born 1824). 29 November – Arthur Gerald Geoghegan, poet. 7 December – John Tuigg, third Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (born 1828). Full date unknown – Dr. Henry Hudson, magazine editor. References 1880s in Ireland Years of the 19th century in Ireland Ireland Ireland