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1857 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1857 in Ireland.

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Events

  • 27 March–24 April - General election.
  • 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, with many of the police force joining the Protestant side. There are also riots in Derry, Portadown and Lurgan.
  • 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).
  • Tom Gallaher sets up the Gallaher tobacco business in Derry.

    • 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).
  • 20 April - Thomas Myles, surgeon, Home Ruler, involved in importation of arms for the Irish Volunteers in 1914 (died 1937).
  • 19 May - William Morgan Jellett, Irish Unionist MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom (died 1936).
  • 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).
  • 20 November - Sir Henry Robinson, 1st Baronet, civil servant (died 1927).
  • Full date unknown - T. W. Rolleston, writer, poet and translator (died 1920).

    • 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

    1857 in Ireland Wikipedia
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