1874 in Ireland

Events

• 17 February – United Kingdom general election in Ireland in which 59 professing members of the Home Rule League are returned.
• 24 May – Queen Victoria creates her third eldest son, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, after the province of Connaught.
• 26 July – the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Sligo, is opened.

  Births

• 28 January – Kathleen Lynn, physician and politician.
• 15 February – Ernest Shackleton, explorer, remembered for his Antarctic expedition of 1914–1916 in the ship Endurance.
• 24 February – Con Lucid, Major League Baseball player.
• 29 March – Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, businessman, politician and philanthropist, Chancellor of the University of Dublin.
• 24 April – Annie Moore, migrant to the United States.
• 25 April – Guglielmo Marconi, inventor
• 29 April – Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan, dramatist and novelist.
• 13 May – Percy Redfern Creed, soldier, sportsman and writer.
• 6 June – George Harman, cricketer and rugby player.
• 11 June – Arthur Gwynn, cricketer and rugby player.
• 14 June – Louis Lipsett, British Army and Canadian Expeditionary Force senior officer during the First World War.
• 18 July – Cathal Brugha, active in Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence, and Irish Civil War and was first Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann, shot by Free State troops.
• 18 July – Bob Lambert, cricketer.
• 20 July
• *Jer Doheny, Kilkenny hurler.
• *Monsignor Michael J. O'Doherty, Archbishop of Manila
• 11 August – John Philip Bagwell, general manager Great Northern Railway, Seanad member.
• 17 September – Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, soldier and politician.
• 11 November – Louise McIlroy, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the London School of Medicine for Women.
• 1 December – Michael Mallin, second in command of Irish Citizen Army, participant in the Easter Rising.
• 18 December – Philip Meldon, cricketer.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Eamonn Duggan, lawyer, nationalist and politician.
• :*Patrick Hannon, Conservative and Unionist Party politician.

  Deaths

• April – Biddy Early, traditional healer.
• 26 July – Abraham Brewster, judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
• 27 August – John Henry Foley, sculptor.
• 30 August – Michael Banim, writer.
• 17 September – Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy, politician.
• 21 September – Arthur Jacob, ophthalmologist.
• 17 October – John Benson, architect for Irish Industrial Exhibition, Great Industrial Exhibition and the 1855 Cork Opera House.