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Events from the year 1830 in Ireland.

Events[]

  • February – first Roman Catholics take their seats in the House of Commons at Westminster, among them Daniel O'Connell (for County Clare) and Richard More O'Ferrall (Kildare).[1]
  • 12 July – Orange Institution parades lead to confrontations between Orangemen and Ribbonmen in Maghera and Castledawson in County Londonderry. Several Catholic homes are burned by Protestants following these clashes.[2]
  • July – potato crop failure the previous year leads to widespread famine. Food riots in Limerick and Leitrim.
  • August – first Dublin Horse Show.
  • November – Ribbonmen attack an Orange band, puncturing some of their drums. The Orangemen retaliate by burning the Catholic village of Maghery, County Armagh, to the ground.[2]
    Undated
    • The Remonstrant Synod of Ulster is formed by non-subscribing Presbyterians.
    • T. & A. Mulholland open the 8000-spindle York Street flax mill in Belfast.[3]
    • Austins established in the Diamond, Derry. At closure in 2016 it will be the world's oldest independent department store.[4]
    • Sir Jonah Barrington (being resident in France to avoid his creditors) is removed from the judiciary following an Address to the King by both Houses of Parliament, a unique event.
    • William Carleton publishes Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry and Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman, a fictionalised account of the Wildgoose Lodge Murders of 1816.
    • The private Markree Observatory is set up.

Births[]

  • 1 January – William James Lendrim, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the Siege of Sevastopol, Crimea (died 1891).
  • 10 April – John Sullivan, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1884).
  • 1 May – Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, labor and community organizer, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and Socialist in America (died 1930).
  • 12 May – Maurice O'Rorke, politician and Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives (died 1916).
  • 25 May – Hugh Nelson, politician in Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia (died 1893).
  • 23 July – John O' Leary, Fenian poet (died 1907).[5]
  • 12 August – John O'Connor, painter (died 1889).
  • 29 August – Charles Bowen, politician in New Zealand (died 1917).
  • 16 September – Patrick Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney (died 1911).
  • 20 September – Arthur Thomas Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at the Battle of Khushab, Persia (died 1913).
  • 20 September – Hans Garrett Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1877 at Komgha, South Africa (died 1889).
  • October – John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea (died 1857).
  • 22 November – Justin McCarthy, politician, historian and novelist (died 1912).
  • 24 December – Harry Hammon Lyster, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Calpee, India (died 1922).
    Full date unknown
    • Brian Dillon, Fenian leader (d. c1872).
    • Robert Dwyer Joyce, music collector and writer (died 1883).
    • Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1857).
    • William R. Roberts, diplomat, Fenian Society member and United States Representative from New York (died 1897).
    • Eyre Massey Shaw, Superintendent of the (London) Metropolitan Fire Brigade (died 1908).

Deaths[]

  • 26 June – George IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1762).
  • 11 October – Richard John Uniacke, lawyer, politician, member of Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly and Attorney General of Nova Scotia (born 1753).

References[]

  1. ^ Fisher, D. R. (2009). The House of Commons, 1820–1832. History of Parliament. Vol. VI. Cambridge University Press. pp. 535–6.
  2. ^ a b "Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  3. ^ "History of Irish Linen". Thomas Ferguson Irish Linen. 2009. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  4. ^ Hamill, Norman (2008). "About Us – Seven Generations". Austins. Archived from the original on 2009-06-12. Retrieved 2010-11-05.
  5. ^ O'Day, Alan. "O'Leary, John (1830–1907)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006.
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