1827 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1827 in Ireland.

Events[]

  • 19–25 April – public theological debates in Dublin between Revs. R. T. P. Pope (Protestant) and Thomas Maguire (Roman Catholic).[1]
  • 6 September–October – Ordnance Survey staff survey a Lough Foyle baseline for their survey of Ireland.[2]
  • 24 September (Feast of Our Lady of Mercy) – Catherine McAuley opens an institution for destitute women and orphans and a school for the poor in Dublin.[3]
  • The British Army establishes Beggars Bush Barracks.
  • Clonmel and Multyfarnham Friaries are re-established.
  • Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin begins his diary, later published as Cín Lae Amhlaoibh.[4]

Arts and literature[]

  • Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes her romantic novel with political overtones, The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys, in London.

Births[]

  • January – Bernard Diamond, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Bolandshahr, India (died 1892).
  • 5 February – Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia (died 1889).
  • 27 April – Mary Ward, scientist (died 1869).
  • 5 May – Thomas Francis Hendricken, first Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island (died 1886).
  • 29 May – Timothy Daniel Sullivan, journalist, politician and poet, writer of the Irish national hymn God Save Ireland (died 1914).
  • 3 September – John Drew, actor in the United States (died 1862).
  • 10 December – Eugene O'Keefe, businessman and philanthropist in Canada (died 1913).
    Full date unknown
    • Thomas Farrell, sculptor (died 1900).
    • James Owens, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1901).

Deaths[]

  • 14 November – Thomas Addis Emmet, lawyer and politician, member of United Irishmen (born 1764).

References[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Hewitt, Rachel (2010). Map of a Nation: a biography of the Ordnance Survey. London: Granta. ISBN 9781847080981.
  3. ^ Austin, Mary Stanislas (1911). "Sisters of Mercy". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
  4. ^ "O'Sullivan, Humphrey_1780–1837_Irish_teacher, tradesman". The Diary Junction. PiKLe. July 2008. Retrieved 2013-04-06.
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