1856 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1856 in Ireland.
Events[edit]
- 1 January – M. H. Gill, printer to Dublin University, purchases the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, renaming it McGlashan & Gill, the predecessor of Gill & Macmillan.[1]
- 29 September – the neoclassical Roman Catholic St Mel's cathedral, Longford, opens for worship.[2]
- 22 October
- Coláiste Mhuire in Mullingar, County Westmeath opens its doors to students.
- Grand National Banquet for soldiers returned from the Crimean War in a warehouse in Custom House docks, Dublin.
Sport[edit]
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Births[edit]
- 14 February – Frank Harris, author, editor, journalist and publisher (died 1931).
- 20 March – John Lavery, artist (died 1941).
- 26 March – William Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1925 in New Zealand).
- 2 May – Matt Talbot, manual labourer and ascetic (died 1925).
- 26 July – George Bernard Shaw, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) (died 1950).
- 18 August – Walter Richard Pollock Hamilton, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Futtehabad, Afghanistan (died 1879).
- 17 November – Thomas Taggart, politician in the United States (died 1929).
- 28 November – Patrick O'Donnell, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (died 1927).
- 21 December
- Catherine Coll, mother of Éamon de Valera (died 1932)
- Sidney Royse Lysaght, writer (died 1941)
- Tomás Ó Criomhthain, writer and fisherman (died 1937).
Deaths[edit]
- 27 January – John Lalor, journalist and author (born 1814).
- 4 February – William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel, peer and MP (born 1801).
- 18 March – Henry Pottinger, soldier and colonial administrator, first Governor of Hong Kong (born 1789).
- 31 May – Yankee Sullivan, bare knuckle fighter and boxer (born 1811).
- 2 June – Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew, politician (born 1787).
- 8 December – Father Theobald Mathew, temperance reformer (born 1790).
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Ó. Ciosáin, Niall; Hutton, Clare (2013). "The history of the book in Ireland". In Suarez, Michael F.; Woudhuysen, H. R. (eds.). The Book: A Global History. Oxford University Press. pp. 323–4. ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6.
- ^ "St. Mel's Cathedral destroyed by fire". Longford Leader. 25 December 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2009-12-25.