1819 in Ireland

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1819
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Centuries:
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Decades:
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
See also:1819 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1819
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1819 in Ireland.

Events[]

  • 9 April – 7 June: Select Committee of the House of Commons inquires into the state of disease and condition of the poor in Ireland.[1] Typhus epidemic continues.
  • 3 May – Henry Grattan petitions the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in favour of Catholic Emancipation.[1]
  • 26 June – first detachment of John Devereux's Irish Legion sets sail from Liverpool in the Charlotte Gambier to aid Simón Bolívar in his campaign to liberate New Granada in South America.[1]
  • 13/14 July – uxoricide of Ellen Scanlan (née Hanley, the "Colleen Bawn") and dumping of her body in the River Shannon.[1]
  • c. October – disturbances by supporters of Ribbonism.[1]

Arts and literature[]

  • 16 April – the Belfast Harp Society is reconstituted as the Irish Harp Society.[1]
  • Publication of William Parnell's Maurice and Berghetta, or, the priest of Rahery: a tale anonymously in London.[1]

Births[]

  • January – William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand (died 1903).
  • 31 January – William Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, soldier and politician (died 1887).
  • 1 March – Mother Vincent Whitty, nun (died 1892).
  • 30 March – Bartholomew Woodlock, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh (died 1902).
  • 31 March – Edward Selby Smyth, British General, commanded Militia of Canada from 1874 to 1880 (died 1896).
  • 1 May – Jimmy Corcoran, emigrant to Manhattan (died 1900).
  • 2 July – Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, barrister and writer (died 1880).
  • 5 July – Hedges Eyre Chatterton, Conservative Party MP and Vice-Chancellor of Ireland (died 1910).
  • 8 July – Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy officer, explorer in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (died 1907).
  • 25 July – John J. Conroy, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany (New York) (died 1895).
  • 13 August – George Stokes, mathematician known for the creation of the Navier-Stokes equation (died 1903).
  • 10 September – Joseph M. Scriven, poet, hymnodist and philanthropist (died 1886).
  • 25 September – George Salmon, mathematician and theologian (died 1904).
  • 28 December – Arthur Hunter Palmer, politician in Australia (died 1898).
  • Nicholas Joseph Crowley, portrait painter (died 1857).
  • Edwin Hayes, English-born marine watercolourist (died 1904).
  • Henry Wellesly McCann, farmer and politician in Canada.
  • Joseph Neale McKenna, banker and politician (died 1906).

Deaths[]

  • 26 September – James Towers English, mercenary (born 1782).
  • 27 November – Gustavus Conyngham, privateer (born c.1744/45).
  • 10 December – Euseby Cleaver, Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland) (born 1746).
  • Thomas Meredith, clergyman and mathematician (born 1777).
  • James O'Hara, military officer and businessman in the United States (born c.1752).

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
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