1799 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1799 in Ireland.
Events
- 15 February - The rebel guerilla leader Michael Dwyer escapes from a gun battle with British troops at Miley Connell's cottage, Dernamuck, in the Glen of Imaal, Wicklow.[1]
- River Shannon made navigable from Limerick to Killaloe.[2]
Births
- 28 February - William Dargan, engineer and railway builder (died 1867).
- 9 August - Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, politician and peer (died 1868).
- 12 August - Patrick MacDowell, sculptor (died 1870).
- 26 December - William Kennedy, Scottish poet, journalist and diplomat (died 1871 in Paris).
Full date unknown
- Henry Archer, barrister and entrepreneur in north Wales (died 1863 in France).
- Nicholas Callan, priest and scientist (died 1864).
- Joseph M. Hawkins, Alamo defender (died 1836 in the United States).
Deaths
- 4 August - James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, statesman, first President of the Royal Irish Academy, president of the volunteer convention in Dublin, 1783 (born 1728).
- 6 December - John Moore, participant in Irish Rebellion of 1798, proclaimed President of the Government of the Province of Connaught (born 1767).
Full date unknown
- Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1722).
- Charles Edward Kilmaine, soldier in France (born 1751).
References
- ^ "Dwyer McAllister Cottage". Heritage Ireland. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ^ Delany, Ruth (1988). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 51. ISBN 0-86281-200-3.