1847 in Ireland

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1847
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Ireland
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Events from the year 1847 in Ireland.

Events[edit]

Skibbereen 1847 by Cork artist James Mahony, commissioned by the Illustrated London News.

Arts and literature[edit]

  • March – Anthony Trollope's first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, largely written at Drumsna between September 1843 and June 1845 and with a contemporary Irish setting, is published in London.[8][9]
  • Charles Lever's novel The Knight of Gwynne, a tale of the time of the Union is published serially in London.
  • Publishers Simms & McIntyre of Belfast introduce their Parlour Library of fiction reprints.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Moody, T.W.; Martin, F.X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 376.
  2. ^ a b c Kinealy, Christine (1994). This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845–52. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-7171-1832-8.
  3. ^ Debo, Angie (1935). The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic.
  4. ^ Hatton, Helen Elizabeth (1993). The Largest Amount of Good: Quaker Relief in Ireland, 1654–1921. Montreal: McGill–Queen's Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-0959-7.
  5. ^ "The Exmouth – a terrible tragedy on Islay". Isle of Islay. 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
  6. ^ "The Exmouth shipwreck off the Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland". My Secret Northern Ireland. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
  7. ^ Lutenegger, Alan J. (2011). "Historical development of iron screw-pile foundations, 1836–1900". International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology. 81. Newcomen Society: 108–28. doi:10.1179/175812109X12547332391989. S2CID 109521534.
  8. ^ Trollope, Anthony (1883). "Chapter 4". An Autobiography. Archived from the original on 2010-04-04. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
  9. ^ Terry, R. C. (1977). Anthony Trollope: The Artist in Hiding. London: Macmillan. pp. 175–200. ISBN 978-0333219232.
  10. ^ Foster, Joseph (1881). The baronetage and knightage. Nichols and Sons. p. 89.