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1870 in Ireland
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[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Births
- 8 February - Robert Pilkington, lawyer and politician who sat in Western Australian Legislative Assembly and British House of Commons (d.1942).
- 2 April - Edmund Dwyer-Gray, politician and 29th Premier of Tasmania in 1939 (d.1945).
- 17 April - Robert Tressell, writer and author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (d.1911).
- 5 May - Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore, High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant of County Fermanagh (d.1948).
- 25 June - Robert Erskine Childers, writer, nationalist, executed by Free State firing squad at the Beggar's Bush Barracks in Dublin (d.1922).
- 16 July - Lambert McKenna, Jesuit priest and writer (d.1956).
- 19 November - William MacCarthy-Morrogh, cricketer (d.1939).
- November - Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist MP (d.1937).
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