1857 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1857 in Ireland.
Events
- 27 March – 24 April: General election.[1]
- 12 July – in Belfast, confrontations between crowds of Catholics and Protestants turn into 10 days of rioting, exacerbated by the open-air preaching of Evangelical Presbyterian minister "Roaring" Hugh Hanna,[2] with many of the police force joining the Protestant side. There are also riots in Derry, Portadown and Lurgan.[3]
- 4 October – the Catholic St. Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny, is opened.
- The Natural History Museum is opened by the Royal Dublin Society.
- Dublin Zoo's lions breed for the first time.
- Scrabo Tower erected above Newtownards as a memorial to Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854).[4]
- Tom Gallaher sets up the Gallaher tobacco business in Derry.[5]
Arts and literature
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Births
- 7 February – Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (died 1952).
- 12 February – Margaret Pearse, Fianna Fáil politician, mother of Patrick Pearse and Willie Pearse (died 1932).
- 11 March – Tom Clarke, nationalist, rebel and organiser of the Easter Rising (executed 1916).
- 17 April – Jane Barlow, poet and novelist (died 1917).
- 19 April – Patrick Stone, Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (died 1942 in Australia).
- 20 April – Thomas Myles, surgeon, Home Ruler, involved in importation of arms for the Irish Volunteers in 1914 (died 1937).
- 22 April (probable year) – Ada Rehan, actress (died 1916 in the United States).
- 1 May – T. W. Rolleston, writer, poet and translator (died 1920).
- 19 May – William Morgan Jellett, Irish Unionist MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom (died 1936).
- 11 July – Joseph Larmor, physicist (died 1942).
- 1 August – Alan Joseph Adamson, politician in Canada (died 1928).
- 22 August – William Dowler Morris, mayor of Ottawa (died 1931).
- 5 October – Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish language writer (died 1942).
- 1 November
- W. H. Grattan Flood, musicologist and historian (died 1928).
- John Joly, physicist (died 1933).
- 18 November – Stanhope Forbes, painter (died 1947 in the United Kingdom).
- 20 November – Sir Henry Robinson, 1st Baronet, civil servant (died 1927).
Deaths
- 29 January – John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea (born 1830).
- 3 March – William Brown, creator and first admiral of the Argentine Navy (born 1777).
- 9 April – Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (born 1830).
- 11 July – John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa (born 1811).
- 27 July – Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (born 1797).
- 10 August – John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (born 1780).
- 19 September – John Purcell, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India, later killed in action (born 1814).
- 23 September – John Nicholson, military hero in India (born 1822).
- 17 December – Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale (born 1774).
References
- ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 376.
- ^ Holmes, Finlay (2004). "Hanna, Hugh (1821–1892)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52699. Retrieved 2012-07-26. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ "Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 2010-01-28.
- ^ Orme, Debbie. "The History of Scrabo Tower". Scrabo Tower. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
- ^ Top 100 Companies Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine