1820 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1820 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: George III (until 29 January), then George IV
    • Regent: George (until 29 January)

Events[]

  • 30 January – Irish-born Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield in the Williams is the first person positively to identify Antarctica as a land mass.[1]
  • 12 February – the East Indian and Fanny set sail from Cork with settlers for the Cape Colony.[2]
  • 6 May – failure of Newport's Bank in Waterford.[3]
  • 25 May – failure of Roche's Bank and stoppage of Leslie's Bank in Cork.[2]
  • 3 June – the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne in Cork is largely destroyed by arson.[4]
  • 8 July – act for lighting the city and suburbs of Dublin with gas.[2]
  • 20 July – Saint Cronan's Boys' National School opens in Bray, County Wicklow, as the Bray Male School.
  • December – Lough Allen Canal, giving through navigation between Carrick-on-Shannon and Lough Allen, opens.[5]
  • The Royal Dublin Society adopts its "Royal" prefix when the new king George IV of the United Kingdom becomes its patron.[6]
  • Suspension of construction of the Wellington Testimonial, Dublin, in Phoenix Park to the design of Robert Smirke.[2]
  • First steamship on the Irish Sea crossing from Dublin to Liverpool, the Waterloo, introduced by George Langtry of Belfast.
  • Frederick Bourne begins to create the village of Ashbourne, County Meath.
  • Publication of James Hardiman's The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time in Dublin.
  • are founded.

Arts and literature[]

  • Charles Maturin (anonymously) publishes Melmoth the Wanderer.
  • Regina Maria Roche publishes The Munster Cottage Boy: a Tale.

Births[]

  • 19 February – John Tuigg, third Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (died 1889 in the United States).
  • 31 May – Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 to 1853 (died 1853).
  • 3 June – Thomas William Moffett, scholar, educationalist and president of Queen's College Galway (died 1908).
  • 4 June – John Kean, businessman and politician in Ontario (died 1892).
  • 2 August – John Tyndall, physicist (died 1893).
  • 6 October – James Travers, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Indore, India (died 1884).
  • 22 November – Katherine Plunket, botanical artist and longest-lived Irish person ever (died 1932).
  • 30 December – Mary Anne Sadlier, novelist (died 1903).
    Full date unknown
    • Thomas Bellew, Galway landowner and politician (died 1863).
    • John F. Kennedy's great-grandfather was born in the village of Dunganstown in County Wexford.
    • Johnston Drummond, early settler of Western Australia, botanical and zoological collector (died 1845).
    • Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at (died 1863).
    • Patrick Mylott, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 in India (died 1878).
    • Henry Hamilton O'Hara "Mad O'hara", "The Mad Squire of Craigbilly" (died 1875).
    • Kivas Tully, architect (died 1905).

Deaths[]

  • 29 January – George III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1738).
  • 5 February – William Drennan, physician, poet, educationalist and co-founder of the Society of United Irishmen (born 1754).
  • 13 February – Leonard McNally, informant against members of the Society of United Irishmen (born 1752).
  • 20 March – Eaton Stannard Barrett, poet and author (born 1786).
  • 6 June – Henry Grattan, member of Irish House of Commons and campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament (born 1746).
  • Undated – Anthony Daly, a leader of the Whiteboy movement, hanged for attempted murder.

References[]

  1. ^ Jones, A. G. E. (1982). Antarctica Observed: who discovered the Antarctic Continent?. Caedmon of Whitby. ISBN 0-905355-25-3.
  2. ^ a b c d 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.
  3. ^ Grogan, Patrick (2017). "A failed bank of Waterford in the eighteen-hundreds". Decies. Waterford. 73: 11–18.
  4. ^ "Rebuilding". Cork: Cathedral Parish. Retrieved 17 July 2012.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Delany, Ruth (1988). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 56. ISBN 0-86281-200-3.
  6. ^ Royal Dublin Society, The; Meenan, James; Clarke, Desmond (1981). RDS: The Royal Dublin Society, 1731–1981. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7171-1125-1.
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