1866 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1866 in Ireland.
Events
- 28 January - The Midland Great Western Railway opens to Westport railway station.
- 22 June - Archbishop Cullen is elevated to the cardinalate as the first Irish Cardinal.[1]
- 13 July - The SS Great Eastern sets out from Valentia Island on the second (successful) attempt to lay the transatlantic telegraph cable.[2] Robert Halpin is master and William Thomson technical consultant.
- 14 October - St Peter's Church, Belfast, later to become the Roman Catholic Cathedral, is dedicated, although the building is incomplete.
- Maziere Brady retires as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, an office to which he was appointed in 1846.[3]
Sport
- The first modern Irish Derby, created by the 3rd Earl of Howth, the 3rd Marquess of Drogheda and the 3rd Earl of Charlemont, is run at the Curragh Racecourse.
- The Ulster Yacht Club is revived at Bangor, County Down, on the initiative of Frederick Temple Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye.[4]
Births
- 5 February - Domhnall Ua Buachalla, member of 1st Dáil, Fianna Fáil TD, last Governor-General of the Irish Free State (died 1963).
- February - Michael Egan, trade unionist, city councillor and Cumann na nGaedheal TD (died 1947).
- 15 June - Charles Wood, composer (died 1926).
- 13 July - Emily Winifred Dickson, gynaecologist (died 1944 in Liverpool).
- 16 August - Dora Sigerson, poet (died 1918 in London).
- 1 November - Cheiro, born William John Warner, astrologer (died 1936 in the United States).
- 3 December - Ethna Carbery, born Anna Johnston, writer and poet (died 1902).
- 7 December - Maude Delap, marine biologist (died 1953)
- December - Thomas Byrne, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1898 at the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan (died 1944).
Full date unknown
- Éamon a Búrc, tailor and seanchaí (died 1942).
- Master McGrath, greyhound (died 1873).
- Bridget Sullivan, domestic housemaid for Borden family of Fall River, Massachusetts (died 1948 in the United States).
Deaths
- 5 January - Augustus Warren Baldwin, naval officer and political figure in Upper Canada (born 1776).
- 11 January - Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, actor (born 1818).
- 17 January - George Petrie, painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (born 1790).
- 4 March - Alexander Campbell, religious leader in Britain and the United States (born 1788).
- 18 May - Francis Sylvester Mahony, humorist and poet (aka Father Prout) (born 1804).
- 26 October - John Kinder Labatt, brewer in Canada (born 1803).
- 26 October - Patrick McHale, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1826).
- Full date unknown - Edward Eagar, lawyer and criminal transported to Australia, politician (born 1787; died in London).
References
- ^ Larkin, Emmet (2004). "Cullen, Paul (1803–1878)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6872. Retrieved 2011-02-09. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ Mills, Bob. "The story of the SS Great Eastern". telephonecollecting.org. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
- ^ Ball, F. Elrington (1926). The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921. London: John Murray.
- ^ Patton, Marcus (1999). "Royal Ulster Yacht Club". Bangor: an Historical Gazetteer. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society. Retrieved 2012-09-28.