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Events from the year1872 in Ireland.

• Party Processions Acts repealed.^[1]
• Summer – about 30,000Nationalists hold a demonstration atHannahstown nearBelfast, campaigning for the release ofFenian prisoners, but leading to another series of riots betweenCatholics andProtestants in the city.^[1]
• 23 November –1872 Londonderry City by-election, the first Irish election to the Parliament of the UK held bysecret ballot. The seat is won from theLiberal Party by theIrish Conservative Party'sCharles Lewis.
• Ulster Hospital for Women and Sick Children is opened in Chichester Street,Belfast.

• Samuel Ferguson publishes his long poemCongal.
• Sheridan Le Fanu publishes his short-story collectionIn a Glass Darkly including thevampirenovellaCarmilla.
• Charles Lever publishes his last novelLord Kilgobbin, "a tale of Ireland in our own time" (serialisation concludes and publication in book form).

• 14 February –Tom Ross, cricketer (died1947).
• 31 March –Arthur Griffith, founder and third leader ofSinn Féin, served asPresident of Dáil Éireann (died1922).
• 26 April – William Cunningham Deane-Tanner,laterWilliam Desmond Taylor, film director inUnited States (murdered 1922).
• 13 June –Blayney Hamilton, cricketer (died1946).
• 4/7 July –John J. O'Kelly, politician, author and publisher, president of theGaelic League andSinn Féin (died1957).
• 16 July –George Henry Morris, soldier, firstcommanding officer to lead anIrish Guardsbattalion into battle (killed in action1914).
• 23 July –John J. McGrath,DemocratU.S. Representative fromCalifornia (died1951).
• 13 August –Robert Johnston, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at theBattle of Elandslaagte,South Africa (died1950).
• 4 September –James Magee, cricketer (died1949).
• 23 September –Dan Comyn, cricketer (died 1949).
• 20 October –Seán O'Mahony,Sinn FéinMP (died1934).
• 24 October –Peter O'Connor, athlete (born inMillom,England) (died1957)
• 13 November –John M. Lyle, architect inCanada (died1945).
• 28 November –Ethel Hobday, pianist (died1947).
• Undated –Patrick R. Chalmers, writer (died1942).

• 22 January –Valentine McMaster, Scottish military surgeon, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at theSiege of Lucknow,India (born 1834 in British India).
• 8 February –Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three timesChief Secretary for Ireland,Viceroy of India, assassinated (born1822).
• 1 June –Charles Lever, novelist (born1806).
• 18 October –Michael O'Connor, first Catholic Bishop ofPittsburgh,Pennsylvania, first CatholicBishop of Erie,Jesuit (born1810).
• 23 November –Joseph Ward, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 atGwalior, India (born1832).
• 6 December –James Byrne, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born1822).

  Full date unknown

  • Anne Elizabeth Ball,phycologist (born1808).
  • Robert Patterson, businessman and naturalist (born1802).

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