1827 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1827 in Ireland.

Events

• 19–25 April – public theological debates in Dublin between Revs. R. T. P. Pope (Protestant) and Thomas Maguire (Roman Catholic).
• 6 September–October – Ordnance Survey staff survey a Lough Foyle baseline for their survey of Ireland.
• 24 September (Feast of Our Lady of Mercy) – Catherine McAuley opens an institution for destitute women and orphans and a school for the poor in Dublin.
• The British Army establishes Beggars Bush Barracks.
• Clonmel and Multyfarnham Friaries are re-established.
• Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin begins his diary, later published as Cín Lae Amhlaoibh.

Arts and literature

• Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes her romantic novel with political overtones, The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys, in London.

Births

• January – Bernard Diamond, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Bolandshahr, India (died 1892).
• 5 February – Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia (died 1889).
• 27 April – Mary Ward, scientist (died 1869).
• 5 May – Thomas Francis Hendricken, first Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island (died 1886).
• 29 May – Timothy Daniel Sullivan, journalist, politician and poet, writer of the Irish national hymn God Save Ireland (died 1914).
• 3 September – John Drew, actor in the United States (died 1862).
• 10 December – Eugene O'Keefe, businessman and philanthropist in Canada (died 1913).

  Full date unknown

  • Thomas Farrell, sculptor (died 1900).
  • James Owens, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1901).

Deaths

• 14 November – Thomas Addis Emmet, lawyer and politician, member of United Irishmen (born 1764).