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1804 in Ireland

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1804 in Ireland

Centuries:
  
17th 18th 19th 20th 21st

Decades:
  
1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s

Events from the year 1804 in Ireland.

Contents

Events

  • 11 February - The last armed rebel group of the Society of United Irishmen, led by James Corcoran, is betrayed and killed or captured by yeomen near Enniscorthy.
  • 4–5 March - Castle Hill convict rebellion in New South Wales led by Irish convicts in Australia.
  • April - First boat passes through the Grand Canal throughout between the River Liffey in Dublin and the River Shannon.
  • 14 May - Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin, opens in Cork Street, Dublin.
  • First Martello Tower erected in Ireland, at Sutton, Dublin.

    • Births

  • Early February - James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (died 1864).
  • 4 April - Andrew Nicholl, painter (died 1886).
  • 7 April - James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller (died 1869).
  • 18 November - John George, politician, judge and in 1859 Solicitor-General for Ireland (died 1871).
  • 25 December - Frederic Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown, peer (died 1880).
  • 26 December - Sir Joseph Napier, 1st Baronet, Conservative Party MP and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1882).
  • 31 December - Francis Sylvester Mahony, humorist and poet (a.k.a. Father Prout) (died 1866).

    • Deaths

  • February - James Corcoran, rebel leader (born c.1770).
  • 27 July - Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim, politician (born 1732).

    • References

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