Ireland

Birth of Forrest Reid in Belfast

Forrest Reid is born in Belfast on June 24, 1875. A novelist, literary critic, and autobiographer, he is best known for his sensitive portrayals of boyhood and adolescence, particularly in works like Young Tom and Tom Barber, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Reid was also a distinguished book and print collector, with a special interest in Victorian illustrators. His scholarly work culminated in the influential study Illustrators of the Sixties, a definitive text on the book illustration of the 1860s. Today, he is recognized as a major figure in early 20th-century Irish literature.

Lucien Bul, born in Dublin

Lucien Bull (January 05, 1876 – August 25, 1972) was a pioneer in chronophotography. Chronophotography is defined as “a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of motion

Sir Hugh Lane, art collector and critic, is born in Ballybrack, Co. Cork

Sir Hugh Percy Lane (9 November 1875 – 7 May 1915) was an Irish art dealer, collector and gallery director. He was born on November 09, 1875 in Ballybrack, County Cork, Ireland.

Death of William Howard Glover, composer and music critic

Arthur Conway, mathematician and president of University College Dublin, is born in Wexford

John Hughes Bennett, pioneer microscopist, died.

National synod of Catholic bishops begins at Maynooth; they renew condemnation of Queens Colleges and condemn Trinity College

John Buchan, Novelist and statesman, born in Perth.

John Buchan, the Scottish author and politician, was born on August 26, 1875, in Perth, Scotland, and he passed away on February 11, 1940.

Teresa Kearney, better known as Mother Kevin, is born in Knockenrahan, Co. Wicklow

Teresa Kearney, later known as Mother Kevin, was born in Knockenrahan, Co. Wicklow. A devoted Catholic missionary, she would go on to found the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Africa, a congregation committed to healthcare, education, and pastoral work across East Africa.

Michael, 'The O'Rahilly', Irish Volunteers leader, is born in Ballylongford, Co. Kerry

Michael Joseph O’Rahilly (Irish: Mícheál Seosamh Ó Rathaille or Ua Rathghaille; 22 April 1875 – 29 April 1916), known as The O’Rahilly, was an Irish republican and nationalist. He was a founding member of the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and served as Director of Arms. Despite opposing the action, he took part in the Easter Rising in Dublin and was killed in a charge on a British machine gun post covering the retreat from the Dublin GPO during the fighting.