1860 in Ireland

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Events

• Deasy's Land Act, intended to reform tenants' rights.
• Construction began on St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast.
• 11 November: Kildare Street Club, Dublin, destroyed by fire.

Births

• 1 January - John Cassidy, sculptor and painter (d.1939).
• 17 January - Douglas Hyde, member of the Seanad in 1922 and 1938; first President of Ireland and Gaelic scholar (d.1949).
• 26 April - Gerald Carew, 5th Baron Carew (d.1927).
• 15 June - Robert Carew, 3rd Baron Carew (d.1923).
• 25 June - John Danaher, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 near Pretoria, South Africa (d.1919).
• 8 December - Amanda McKittrick Ros, novelist and poet (d.1939).

Full date unknown

• Patrick S. Dinneen, lexicographer and historian (d.1934)
• Sidney Royse Lysaght, writer (d.1941)
• Thomas Preston, scientist (d.1900)
• Ada Rehan, actress (d.1916)

Deaths

• 12 February - William Francis Patrick Napier, soldier and military historian (b.1785).
• 17 March - Anna Brownell Jameson, writer (b.1794).
• 23 October - Peter Boyle de Blaquière, politician in Canada and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (b.1783).
• 24 November - George Croly, poet, novelist, historian and divine (b.1780)