1859 in Ireland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
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See also:	1859 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1859 ; List of years in Ireland

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.
Evangelical Ulster Revival.^[1]
John Sisk establishes his building construction business in Cork.^[2]

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).

Francis Fitzpatrick, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 during an attack on Sekukuni's Town, 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).

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).

^ Miller, D. W. (2005). "Did Ulster Presbyterians have a devotional revolution?". In Murphy, J. H. (ed) (ed.). Evangelicals and Catholics in Nineteenth Century Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press. pp. 52–4. ISBN 9781851829170. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)
^ "Sisk History Timeline". Sisk. Retrieved 2012-07-17.

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