1836 in Ireland

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See also:1836 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1836
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Events from the year 1836 in Ireland.

Events[]

  • 30 January – the Intrinsic sinks off Kilkee with the loss of all fourteen on board.[1][2]
  • February – foundation of the Ulster Bank in Belfast.
  • 4 April – Daniel O'Connell gives a speech on "Justice for Ireland".
  • 4 May – the Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, is founded in New York City.
  • 23 May – provides central organisation for the police in Ireland;[3] an Act of 4 July provides for formation of a Dublin Police Office.
  • 4 June – The Sligo Champion newspaper is first published.[4]
  • August – following one of the coldest summers in over fifty years there is widespread failure of the potato crop.
  • 19 September – first burial at Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold's Cross, Dublin, a commercial Protestant burial ground.[5]
  • End of Tithe War.
  • Foundation of the Royal Bank of Ireland, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks.
  • Foundation of the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
  • Irish emigration to Montevideo, Uruguay, peaks.[6][7]

Arts and literature[]

  • Francis Sylvester Mahony's light verse The Reliques of Father Prout published.

Births[]

  • 17 January – William MacCormac, surgeon (died 1901).
  • 16 February – Robert Halpin, master mariner (died 1894).
  • May – Thomas Lane, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (died 1889).
  • 9 June – Henry Arthur McArdle, painter in the United States (died 1908).
  • 10 October – Dalton McCarthy, lawyer and politician in Canada (died 1898).
  • Lot Flannery, sculptor in the United States (died 1922).

Deaths[]

  • 31 March – Edward Southwell Ruthven, Repealer politician and member of the United Kingdom Parliament (b. c. 1772)
  • 8 August – James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, politician (born 1755).
  • 21 August – William Cusac Smith, Baronet, judge (born 1766)

References[]

  1. ^ "Intrinsic Shipwreck Kilkee". County Clare Travel Guide. Archived from the original on 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
  2. ^ O Rourke, Mick (2008-11-25). "Intrinsic". Irish Shipwrecks. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
  3. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 260–261. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  4. ^ Harkin, Greg (2011-09-19). "Still the reigning Champion after 175 great years". Irish Independent.
  5. ^ "History". Mount Jerome Cemetery & Crematorium. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
  6. ^ McWilliams, David (2008). The generation game. Macmillan. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-230-70651-4. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  7. ^ Murray, Edmundo (2009). Becoming gauchos Ingleses: diasporic models in Irish-Argentine literature. Maunsel and Co. ISBN 978-1-933146-67-6. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
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