1859 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1859 in Ireland.

Events[]

  • 29 March – The Irish Times is first published, in Dublin.
  • 28 April–18 May – United Kingdom general election in Ireland produces a Tory majority in Irish seats.
  • 30 April – American ship Pomona carrying, mainly Irish, emigrants from Liverpool to New York, is wrecked on a sandbank at Ballyconigar, off Wexford, with 424 deaths and only 24 survivors.[1]
  • Evangelical Ulster Revival.[2]
  • John Sisk establishes his building construction business in Cork.[3]

Births[]

  • 3 January – Maurice Healy, lawyer, politician and MP (died 1923).
  • 30 January – Tony Mullane, Major League Baseball player (died 1944).
  • 1 February – Victor Herbert, composer, cellist and conductor (died 1924).
  • 11 February – Barry Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore, nobleman and officer (died 1885).
  • February – James Murray, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Elandsfontein, near Pretoria, South Africa (died 1942).
  • 13 April – Daniel Gallery, politician in Canada (died 1920).
  • 22 April – Ada Rehan, Shakespearean actress (died 1916 in the United States).
  • 4 May – William Hamilton, cricketer (died 1914).
  • 16 October – Daisy Bates, née Margaret Dwyer, anthropologist (died 1951 in Australia).
    Full date unknown
    • Francis Fitzpatrick, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 during an attack on , South Africa (died 1933).
    • Thomas Houghton, Anglican Clergyman and editor of the Gospel Magazine (died 1951).
    • Edward Martyn, playwright and activist (died 1923).
    • Justin Huntly McCarthy, politician and author (died 1936).
    • Walter Osborne, painter (died 1903).
    • Henry Jones Thaddeus, painter (died 1929).

Deaths[]

  • 14 April – Lady Morgan, novelist (b. c1776).
  • 3 November – George Forrest, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 at Delhi, India (born 1800).
  • 29 April – Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer (born 1793).
    Full date unknown
    • Peter McManus, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross.

References[]

  1. ^ "The Wreck of the Pomona". Wexford Independent. 1859-05-28. p. 1.
  2. ^ Miller, D. W. (2005). "Did Ulster Presbyterians have a devotional revolution?". In Murphy, J. H. (ed.). Evangelicals and Catholics in Nineteenth Century Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press. pp. 52–4. ISBN 9781851829170.
  3. ^ "Sisk History Timeline". Sisk. Archived from the original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
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