1806 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1806 in Ireland.

Events[]

  • 10 April – Sir Arthur Wellesley marries Kitty Pakenham, daughter of the Earl of Longford, in the temporary St. George's Church built on Whitworth Road in Dublin.[1][2]
  • American engraver Henry Pelham, agent for Lord Lansdowne's Irish estates, is drowned from a boat while superintending the erection of a martello tower in the Kenmare River.

Arts and literature[]

  • John Wilson Croker (anonymously) publishes his mock-heroic verse satire on Dublin socio-political life The Amazoniad; or, Figure and Fashion.[3]
  • Sydney Owenson publishes her epistolary novel The Wild Irish Girl: a National Tale.
  • publishes his third volume of verse .
  • The English architect George Papworth moves to Dublin.

Births[]

  • 21 January – William Quarter, first Roman Catholic bishop of Chicago (died 1848).
  • 25 January – Daniel Maclise, painter (died 1870).
  • 10 May - James Shields, Irish American politician and United States Army officer (died 1879 in the United States)
  • 31 May – Patrick Leahy, Archbishop of Cashel (died 1875).
  • 25 July – John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer (died 1861).
  • 1 August – Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Conservative politician (died 1869).
  • 17 August – Peter Richard Kenrick, first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River (died 1896).
  • 20 August – Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford, Member of Parliament for Armagh (died 1864).
  • 31 August – Charles Lever, novelist (died 1872).
  • September – Samuel Davidson, biblical scholar (died 1898).
  • 15 October – William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim, nobleman and landowner (died 1878).
  • 3 November – Robert Molesworth, judge in Australia (died 1890).
  • 4 December – John T. Graves, mathematician (died 1870).
    Full date unknown
    • Simon Byrne, prize-fighter (died 1833).

Deaths[]

  • 22 February – James Barry, painter (born 1741).
  • 31 May – George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat (born 1737).
  • 9 September – William Paterson, jurist in the United States (born 1745).
  • 18 September – Patrick Cotter O'Brien, known as the Bristol Giant and the Irish Giant (born 1760).

References[]

  1. ^ Richard, Holmes (2002). Wellington: The Iron Duke. London: HarperCollins. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-00-713750-3.
  2. ^ "St. George's church re-opened". The Irish Times. 1961-12-14. p. 9.
  3. ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
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