1858 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1858 in Ireland.

Events[]

  • 17 March – In Dublin, James Stephens founds the revolutionary organisation which becomes known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood.[1][2]
  • Edward Harland, at this time general manager, buys the small shipyard on Queen's Island, Belfast, from his employer Robert Hickson in conjunction with Gustav Wilhelm Wolff.[3]
  • Ballinacourty lighthouse at Dungarvan harbour built.

Arts and literature[]

  • First free public library in Ireland opens in Dundalk.

Sport[]

Births[]

  • 11 January – Mildred Anne Butler, painter (died 1941).
  • 13 February – James Murray Irwin, British Army doctor (died 1938).
  • 6 March – Coslett Herbert Waddell, priest and botanist (died 1919).
  • 11 March – Tom Clarke, republican (born in England; executed 1916).
  • 2 May – Edith Anna Somerville, novelist (died 1949).
  • 19 May – Mike Cleary, boxer (died 1893).
  • 5 October – Thomas Cusack, Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois (died 1926).
    Full date unknown
    • Anne Marjorie Robinson, artist (died 1924).

Deaths[]

  • 4 March – John Ryan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, killed in action (born 1823).
  • 26 April – Francis Murphy, first Roman Catholic bishop of Adelaide, South Australia (born 1795).
  • 22 July – Mary Aikenhead, founder of the Sisters of Charity (born 1787).
  • 28 July – Alexander Wright, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (born 1826).
  • 17 August – Robert Cane, doctor, member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation, Mayor of Kilkenny (born 1807).
    Full date unknown
    • John Hogan, sculptor (born 1800).
    • Benjamin Lett, bomber and arsonist in America and Canada (born 1813).
    • James Roche Verling, British Army surgeon, became personal surgeon to Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena (born 1787).

References[]

  1. ^ Cronin, Seán (1972). The McGarrity Papers. Tralee: Anvil Books. p. 11.
  2. ^ Ryan, Desmond (1967). The Fenian Chief: A Biography of James Stephens. Dublin: Hely Thom. p. 1.
  3. ^ 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.
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