1867 in Ireland

Events

• 11 February – abortive Fenian attempt to seize Chester Castle.
• 5 March – Fenian Rising in County Dublin, County Cork, County Limerick, County Tipperary and County Clare.
• 12 July – despite the Party Processions Acts, the Orange Order parades from Bangor to Newtownards in County Down. It is organised by William Johnston and about 30,000 take part.
• August – Irish Republican Brotherhood convention at Manchester appoints Colonel Thomas J. Kelly to succeed James Stephens.
• 11 September – Thomas J. Kelly and Timothy Deasy are arrested in Manchester.
• 18 September – rescue of Kelly and Deasy from a police van in Manchester; one policeman is shot.
• 12 October – 62 Fenians are among the last group of convicts to suffer penal transportation as the convict ship Hougoumont departs from Portsmouth on an 89-day passage to Western Australia.
• 23 November – William Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O'Brien, the 'Manchester Martyrs', are hanged in Salford for their part in the rescue of Kelly and Deasy.
• 13 December – Clerkenwell explosion at Clerkenwell Prison in London during a Fenian escape attempt; 12 local residents are killed.
• Royal Irish Constabulary granted its "Royal" prefix by Queen Victoria.

  Births

• 1 January – Thomas Westropp Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal member of the Seanad, Cathaoirleach of Seanad.
• 25 January – Dolway Walkington, Irish national rugby union captain.
• 9 February – James Douglas, journalist.
• 10 April – George William Russell, critic, poet and artist.
• 19 April – James Cullen, priest and mathematician.
• 13 May – Thomas Gann, doctor, archaeologist and writer.
• 15 May – Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary.
• 17 June – John Robert Gregg, creator of Gregg Shorthand.
• 11 August – Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin, barrister and politician.
• 2 October – James Stevenson-Hamilton, soldier and game warden
• 10 November – John Henry Patterson, soldier, hunter and writer.
• 16 December – Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary and writer.
• 26 December – Ella Young, poet.
• 31 December – Seumas MacManus, writer.
• Undated – Cathal O'Byrne, singer, poet and writer.

  Deaths

• 7 February – William Dargan, engineer and railway builder.
• 22 February – Daniel Devlin, businessman and City Chamberlain in New York.
• 12 April – Robert Bell, journalist and writer.
• 20 April – John Lyons, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the Siege of Sebastopol in the Crimean War.
• 17 September – Francis Blackburne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
• 23 September – Richard W. Dowling, victorious commander at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass in the American Civil War.
• 31 October – William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer, builder of the "Leviathan of Parsonstown".
• 10 December – Edward Whelan, politician, a Father of the Canadian Confederation.
• Undated – George Crawford Hyndman, auctioneer and amateur biologist.