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1811 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1811 in Ireland.

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Events

  • Kildare Place Society (formally, The Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland) founded as a non-denominational organisation by a group of Dublin philanthropists.
  • 4 December - Royal Navy frigate HMS Saldanha (1809) is driven in a gale onto rocks in Lough Swilly with no survivors from the estimated 253 aboard.

    • Arts and literature

  • James Sheridan Knowles' play Brian Boroihme; or, The Maid of Erin is performed in Belfast.

    • Births

  • 21 January - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, politician and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1885).
  • 10 March - Yankee Sullivan, bare knuckle fighter and boxer (died 1856).
  • 11 March - Lady Katherine Sophia Kane née Baily, botanist (died 1886).
  • 11 November - John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa (died 1857).

    • Full date unknown

  • Patrick Murray, theologian (died 1882).

    • Deaths

  • Robert Brooke, soldier, Governor of St Helena (born 1744).

    • References

    1811 in Ireland Wikipedia
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