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1846 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1846 in Ireland.

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Events

  • Ongoing - Great Famine: The first deaths from hunger take place early in the year. Phytophthora infestans almost totally destroys the summer potato crop and the Famine worsens considerably. By December a third of a million destitute people are employed on public works.
  • 13 March - Ballinglass incident: eviction of 300 tenants at the village of Ballinglass in County Galway.
  • 22 September - The Great Western Steamship Company's SS Great Britain, bound from Liverpool for New York, runs aground in Dundrum Bay (County Down). She lies here for almost a year, protected by temporary measures organised by her designer, I. K. Brunel.
  • Maziere Brady succeeds Sir Edward Sugden as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, an office which he will hold (with short intervals) until 1866.
  • HM Prison Crumlin Road in Belfast is opened with the arrival of the first inmates, who are forced to walk from Carrickfergus Prison in chains.
  • The first substantial English translation of the Annals of the Four Masters, made by Owen Connellan, is published.
  • The Anglo-Celt newspaper begins weekly publication in Cavan.
  • Historian Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (Roderic O'Flaherty)'s Chorographical description of West or Iar Connacht (1684) is first published.

    • Births

  • 10 February - Lord Charles Beresford, British admiral (died 1919)
  • 13 February - John O'Connor Power, Irish Nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (died 1919).
  • 25 March - Michael Davitt, republican, nationalist agrarian agitator, social campaigner, labour leader and Irish National Land League founder (died 1906).
  • 27 June – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader (died 1891).
  • 22 July - Alfred Perceval Graves, writer (died 1931).
  • 13 August - Otto Jaffe, twice elected as Irish Unionist Party Lord Mayor of Belfast (died 1929).
  • 10 September - John F. Finerty, U.S. Representative from Illinois (died 1908).
  • 18 September - Standish James O'Grady, author, journalist, historian (died 1928).
  • 23 August - Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, politician and barrister (died 1921).
  • 9 October - Frank Hugh O'Donnell, writer and nationalist politician (died 1916).
  • 18 November - Samuel Cleland Davidson, inventor and engineer (died 1921)

    • Deaths

  • 3 April – Zozimus (Michael J. Moran), comic poet (b. c. 1794)
  • 12 October – Lawrence Kavenagh, bushranger (b. c. 1805)
  • exact date unknown – George Darley, poet, novelist and critic (born 1795).

    • References

    1846 in Ireland Wikipedia
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