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See also:	1870 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1870 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1870 in Ireland.

• 19 May – theHome Government Association is established byIsaac Butt to argue for devolution for Ireland and repeal of theAct of Union.^[1]
• 27 August –White Star's firstocean linerRMSOceanic is launched byHarland and Wolff inBelfast.
• 19 October –SS Cambria (1869) is wrecked onInishtrahull with the loss of 179 lives.^[2]
• Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act 1870 passed in an attempt to secure greater security of tenure for landholders.^[3]
• The building ofBelfast Castle is completed, to a design byCharles Lanyon and his son.
• Work is completed on the building of theAlbert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial toQueen Victoria's latePrince Consort,Prince Albert.
• First service is held in the newSaint Fin Barre's Cathedral,Cork (Church of Ireland).
• Belfast Hebrew Congregation is established.

• TheWater Colour Society of Ireland is founded as theAmateur Drawing Society by an informal group of six well-connected women fromCounty Waterford.^[4]

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• 22 January –John B. Sheridan, Irish American sports journalist (died1930 in the United States)
• 3 February –Beatrice Grimshaw,anthropologist (died1953 in Australia).
• 8 February –Robert Pilkington, lawyer and politician in theWestern Australian Legislative Assembly andHouse of Commons of the UK (died 1942 in England).
• 2 April –Edmund Dwyer-Gray, politician and 29thPremier of Tasmania in 1939 (died1945 in Australia).
• 17 April –Robert Tressell, born Robert Croker, radical, author ofThe Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (died 1911 in England).
• 5 May –Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore,High Sheriff andDeputy Lieutenant ofCounty Fermanagh (died1948).
• 22 May –Eva Gore-Booth, poet, dramatist, suffragist, social worker and labour activist (died 1926 in London).
• 25 June –Erskine Childers, writer and nationalist (executed by Free Statefiring squad1922 atBeggars Bush Barracks, Dublin).
• 8 July –R. A. Stewart Macalister, archaeologist (died1950).
• 16 July –Lambert McKenna,Jesuit priest and writer (died1956).
• 16 September –John Boland, Nationalist politician,MP and Olympic tennis gold medallist (died 1958 in England).
• 10 October –Frank Lawless,Sinn FéinTD, member of the1st Dáil and the2nd Dáil (died1922).
• 19 November –William MacCarthy-Morrogh, cricketer (died1939).
• November –Thomas Moles,Ulster Unionist MP (died1937).
• 5 December –John O'Connor, priest (died 1952 in England).
• Undated –P. T. Daly, trade unionist (died1943).

• 17 March –John Keegan Casey, "poet of the Fenians" (born 1846).
• 25 April –Daniel Maclise, painter (born1806).
• c. May –John Skipton Mulvany, architect (born1813).
• 31 May –Chartres Brew,Gold commissioner,Chief Constable andjudge in theColony of British Columbia (born1815).
• 7 September –Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 in theSea of Azov,Crimea (born1833).
• 23 September –Thomas McCarthy, businessman and politician inQuebec (born1832).
• 20 October –Michael William Balfe, composer (born1808).
• 9 December –Patrick MacDowell, sculptor (born1799).
• 12 December –Martin Cregan, portrait painter (born1788).

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