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Events from the year 1867 in Ireland.

Events

11 February – abortive Fenian attempt to seize Chester Castle.^[1]
5 March – Fenian Rising in County Dublin, County Cork, County Limerick, County Tipperary and County Clare.^[1]
12 July – despite the Party Processions Acts, the Orange Order parades from Bangor to Newtownards in County Down. It is organised by William Johnston (sentenced to a short term in prison the next year for his actions) and about 30,000 take part.^[2]
August – Irish Republican Brotherhood convention at Manchester appoints Colonel Thomas J. Kelly to succeed James Stephens.^[1]
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.^[1]
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.^[1]
13 December – Clerkenwell explosion at Clerkenwell Prison in London during a Fenian escape attempt;^[1] 12 local residents are killed.^[3]
Royal Irish Constabulary granted its "Royal" prefix by Queen Victoria.^[4]

1 January – Thomas Westropp Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal member of the Seanad, Cathaoirleach of Seanad (died 1962).
25 January – Dolway Walkington, Irish national rugby union captain (died 1926).
9 February – James Douglas, journalist (died 1940).
10 April – George William Russell, critic, poet and artist (died 1935).
19 April – James Cullen, priest and mathematician (died 1933).
13 May – Thomas Gann, doctor, archaeologist and writer (died 1938).

15 May – Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary (died 1945).
17 June – John Robert Gregg, creator of Gregg Shorthand (died 1948).
11 August – Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin, barrister and politician (died 1927).
2 October – James Stevenson-Hamilton, soldier and game warden (died 1957 in South Africa)
10 November – John Henry Patterson, soldier, hunter and writer (died 1947).
16 December – Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary and writer (died 1951).^[5]
26 December – Ella Young, poet (died 1956).
31 December – Seumas MacManus, writer (died 1960).
Undated – Cathal O'Byrne, singer, poet and writer (died 1957).

7 February – William Dargan, engineer and railway builder (born 1799).
22 February – Daniel Devlin, businessman and City Chamberlain in New York (born 1814).
12 April – Robert Bell, journalist and writer (born 1800).
20 April – John Lyons, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the siege of Sebastopol in the Crimean War (born 1824).
17 September – Francis Blackburne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (born 1782).
23 September – Richard W. Dowling, victorious commander at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass in the American Civil War (born 1838).
31 October – William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer, builder of the "Leviathan of Parsonstown" (born 1800).
10 December – Edward Whelan, politician, a Father of the Canadian Confederation (born 1824).
Undated – George Crawford Hyndman, auctioneer and amateur biologist (born 1796).

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 370.
^ "Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 2010-01-28.
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 288–287. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Tobias, J. J. (1975). "Police and the Public in the United Kingdom". Police Forces in History. Sage. ISBN 0-8039-9928-3.
^ "Amy Carmichael - Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Christian Classics Ethereal Library". www.ccel.org. Retrieved 23 July 2018.