1875 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 4 Births 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 6 References

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May - Ballymena, Cushendall and Red Bay Railway opens, with services between Ballymena and Retreat in County Antrim.^[1]

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• 14 March - Patrick McLane, Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (d.1946).
• 10 April - Joseph McGuinness, Sinn Féin MP and TD, member of the 1st Dáil (d.1922).
• 17 April - John Brunskill, cricketer (d.1940).
• 18 April - Katherine Cecil Thurston, novelist (d.1911).
• 22 April - The O'Rahilly, killed during the Easter Rising (d.1916).
• 28 May - Denis O'Donnell, entrepreneur (d.1933)
• 24 June - Forrest Reid, novelist and literary critic (d.1947)
• 5 July - Lawrence Bulger, international rugby union player (d.1928).
• 29 August - Robert Forde, Antarctic explorer (d.1959).
• 12 September - George Edward Pugin Meldon, cricketer (d.1950).
• 9 November - Hugh Lane, established Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, died on board the RMS Lusitania (d.1915).

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• 21 January - Sir Alexander McDonnell, 1st Baronet, lawyer, civil servant and commissioner of national education in Ireland (b.1794).
• 20 March - John Mitchel, nationalist activist, solicitor and journalist (b.1815).
• 29 April - William Nash, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Lucknow, India (b.1824).
• 13 May - John Willoughby Crawford, politician and third Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1817).
• 15 May - James O'Reilly, lawyer and politician in Canada (b.1823).
• 3 June - Patrick Graham, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (b.1837).
• 3 June - Miles Gerard Keon, journalist, novelist, colonial secretary and lecturer (b.1821).
• 13 July - William Coffey, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, the Crimea (b.1829).
• 9 December - Sir Thomas Burke, 3rd Baronet, landowner and politician (b.1813).

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• Henry Hamilton O'Hara "Mad O'hara", "The Mad Squire of Craigbilly" (b.1820).

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