1870 in Ireland

Events from the year 1870 in Ireland.

Events

19 May – the Home Government Association is established by Isaac Butt to argue for devolution for Ireland and repeal of the Act of Union.
27 August – White Star's first ocean liner RMS Oceanic is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
19 October – is wrecked on Inishtrahull with the loss of 179 lives.
Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act 1870 passed in an attempt to secure greater security of tenure for landholders.
The building of Belfast Castle is completed, to a design by Charles Lanyon and his son.
Work is completed on the building of the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial to Queen Victoria's late Prince Consort, Prince Albert.
First service is held in the new Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork.
Belfast Hebrew Congregation is established.

The Water Colour Society of Ireland is founded as the Amateur Drawing Society by an informal group of six well-connected women from County Waterford.

22 January – John B. Sheridan, Irish American sports journalist
3 February – Beatrice Grimshaw, anthropologist.
8 February – Robert Pilkington, lawyer and politician in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly and House of Commons of the UK.
2 April – Edmund Dwyer-Gray, politician and 29th Premier of Tasmania in 1939.
17 April – Robert Tressell, born Robert Croker, radical, author of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.
5 May – Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore, High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant of County Fermanagh.
22 May – Eva Gore-Booth, poet, dramatist, suffragist, social worker and labour activist.
25 June – Erskine Childers, writer and nationalist.
8 July – R. A. Stewart Macalister, archaeologist.
16 July – Lambert McKenna, Jesuit priest and writer.
16 September – John Boland, Nationalist politician, MP and Olympic tennis gold medallist.
10 October – Frank Lawless, Sinn Féin TD, member of the 1st Dáil and the 2nd Dáil.
19 November – William MacCarthy-Morrogh, cricketer.
November – Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist MP.
5 December – John O'Connor, priest.
Undated – P. T. Daly, trade unionist.

17 March – John Keegan Casey, "poet of the Fenians".
25 April – Daniel Maclise, painter.
c. May – John Skipton Mulvany, architect.
31 May – Chartres Brew, Gold commissioner, Chief Constable and judge in the Colony of [British Columbia (1858–1866)|Colony of British Columbia].
7 September – Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea.
23 September – Thomas McCarthy, businessman and politician in Quebec.
20 October – Michael William Balfe, composer.
9 December – Patrick MacDowell, sculptor.
12 December – Martin Cregan, portrait painter.