1834 in Ireland

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See also:1834 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1834 in Ireland.

Events[]

  • 17 December – the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway in Ireland, opens between Westland Row, Dublin, and Kingstown.
  • 18 December – Tithe War: "Rathcormac massacre": At Gortroe, near Rathcormac, County Cork, armed Constabulary reinforced by the regular British Army kill at least nine and wound thirty protesters.[1][2]
  • National Education Act provides for a national system of primary education, including Catholic children, taught in the English language.
  • St. Vincent's Hospital is set up at St Stephen's Green, Dublin, by Mary Aikenhead, staffed by the Religious Sisters of Charity.[3]
  • Downshire Bridge ("The Cut") underpass is built in Banbridge, County Down, by contractor William Dargan.

Sport[]

Croquet[]

  • Croquet is recorded as being played in Ireland (at Greenmount near Castlebellingham, County Louth) at about this date.[4]
Dublin and Kingstown Railway

Births[]

  • March – Timothy Eaton, businessman in Canada, founder of Eaton's department store (died 1907).
  • 15 July – John Horgan, politician and member of the Western Australian Legislative Council (died 1907).
  • 1 August – William Murphy, evangelical Protestant preacher (died 1872).
  • 4 September – Robert Montresor Rogers, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (died 1895).
  • 24 December – Charles W. Jones, lawyer and United States Senator in Florida (died 1897).
  • Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, literary biographer, drama critic and sculptor (died 1925).

Deaths[]

  • 6 January – Richard Martin, "Humanity Dick", politician and animal rights activist (born 1754).
  • 4 June – Samuel Greg, entrepreneur and pioneer of the factory system at Quarry Bank Mill (born 1758).

References[]

  1. ^ "The Rathcormac Inquest", House of Commons Debates, vol. 26, pp. 523–4, 3 March 1835, retrieved 2012-10-17
  2. ^ Rathcormac Tithe Commemoration Committee (1984). A souvenir programme commemorating the Rathmore-Gortroe massacre which took place during the Tithe War on the 18 December, 1834.
  3. ^ Meenan, F. O. C. (1995). St Vincent's Hospital 1834–1994. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-2151-8.
  4. ^ Martin, Clive; Williams, Simon (2004). "A Brief history of Croquet in Ireland". Croquet Association of Ireland. Retrieved 2013-01-09.
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