1867 in Ireland

• 11 February – abortive Fenian attempt to seize Chester Castle.{{cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W. |editor2=Martin, F. X. |year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=370}}
• 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 (sentenced to a short term in prison the next year for his actions) and about 30,000 take part.{{cite web|title=Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events|work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm|access-date=2010-01-28}}
• 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.{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=288–287|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
• Royal Irish Constabulary granted its "Royal" prefix by Queen Victoria.{{cite book|last=Tobias|first=J. J.|chapter=Police and the Public in the United Kingdom|title=Police Forces in History|year=1975|publisher=Sage|isbn=0-8039-9928-3}}

• 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).

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• 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).{{cite web |title=Amy Carmichael - Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Christian Classics Ethereal Library |url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/carmichael |website=www.ccel.org |access-date=23 July 2018 |language=en}}
• 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).

• 1867 in Scotland
• 1867 in Wales

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