1849 in Ireland
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Events

  • 12 July — Battle of Dolly's Brae: Up to 1400 armed Orangemen
    Orange Institution
    The Orange Institution is a Protestant fraternal organisation based mainly in Northern Ireland and Scotland, though it has lodges throughout the Commonwealth and United States. The Institution was founded in 1796 near the village of Loughgall in County Armagh, Ireland...

     march from Rathfriland
    Rathfriland
    Rathfriland is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is a hilltop Plantation of Ulster settlement between the Mourne Mountains, Slieve Croob and Banbridge. It had a population of 2,079 people in the 2001 Census.-History:...

     to Tollymore Park
    Tollymore Forest Park
    Tollymore Forest Park was the first state forest park in Northern Ireland, established on the 2 June 1955. It is located at Bryansford, near the town of Newcastle. Covering an area of at the foot of the Mourne Mountains, the forest park offers panoramic views of the surrounding mountains and the...

     near Castlewellan
    Castlewellan
    Castlewellan is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is beside Castlewellan Lake and Slievenaslat mountain, southwest of Downpatrick. It lies between the Mourne Mountains and Slieve Croob. It had a population of 2,392 people in the 2001 Census....

    , County Down
    County Down
    -Cities:*Belfast *Newry -Large towns:*Dundonald*Newtownards*Bangor-Medium towns:...

    . When 1000 armed Ribbonmen
    Ribbonism
    Ribbonism, whose adherents were usually called Ribbonmen, was a 19th century popular movement of Catholics in Ireland. It was active against landlords and their agents, and was ideologically and sometimes violently opposed to the Orange Order.-History:...

     gather, shots are fired, Catholic homes are burnt and about eighty Catholics killed.
  • Queen's Bridge
    Queen's Bridge
    Queens Bridge is a bridge in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is one of eight bridges in the city, not to be confused with the adjacent Queen Elizabeth II Bridge. It was opened in 1849.-History:...

     in Belfast
    Belfast
    Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...

     is officially opened by Queen Victoria.
  • Construction begins on the 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct
    Craigmore Viaduct
    The Craigmore Viaduct is a railway bridge near Bessbrook, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, locally known as the 18 Arches....

     near Newry
    Newry
    Newry is a city in Northern Ireland. The River Clanrye, which runs through the city, formed the historic border between County Armagh and County Down. It is from Belfast and from Dublin. Newry had a population of 27,433 at the 2001 Census, while Newry and Mourne Council Area had a population...

    , on the Dublin-Belfast railway line
    Dublin-Belfast railway line
    The Dublin-Belfast main line is a major railway route in Ireland that connects Dublin Connolly station in the Republic of Ireland and Belfast Central station in Northern Ireland.-History:The railway line was built by three separate companies...

     (opened in 1852
    1852 in Ireland
    -Events:*January 5 The troopship Birkenhead boarded British Army recruits at Queenstown. It had insufficient lifeboats.*February 26 The Birkenhead foundered...

    ).
  • George Boole
    George Boole
    George Boole was an English mathematician and philosopher.As the inventor of Boolean logic—the basis of modern digital computer logic—Boole is regarded in hindsight as a founder of the field of computer science. Boole said,...

     appointed as first professor of mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     at Queen's College, Cork.

Births

  • 31 January — Robert James McMordie
    Robert James McMordie
    Robert James McMordie, QC was an Irish barrister, politician, and Lord Mayor of Belfast.Son of the Rev. J A McMordie, he was born in Cumran, County Down, and educated at the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast and Queen's College, Belfast. He received an M.A. from Queen's University. In 1874 he...

    , solicitor, politician and Lord Mayor of Belfast
    Lord Mayor of Belfast
    The Lord Mayor of Belfast is the leader and chairman of Belfast City Council, elected annually from and by the City's 51 councillors.The Lord Mayor is Niall Ó Donnghaile of Sinn Féin, while the Deputy Lord Mayor is Ruth Patterson of the Democratic Unionist Party, who were elected in May 2011.The...

     (d.1914
    1914 in Ireland
    -Events:*17 January - Edward Carson inspects a parade of the East Belfast Regiment of the Ulster Volunteers.*20 February - The Fethard-on-Sea life-boat capsizes on service off the County Wexford coast: nine crew are lost....

    ).
  • 12 February — John Edward Robinson
    John Edward Robinson (Methodist Bishop)
    John Edward Robinson was a Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1904.-Birth and family:...

    , Missionary Bishop
    Missionary Bishop (Methodist Church)
    A Missionary Bishop is one assigned in the Anglican Communion to an area that is not already organized under a bishop of a church. The term was also used in the Methodist churches at one time, but this was discontinued in 1964.-Anglican churches:...

     of the Methodist Episcopal Church
    Methodist Episcopal Church
    The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, was a development of the first expression of Methodism in the United States. It officially began at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the first bishops. Through a series of...

    .
  • 18 May — John Clark
    John Clark (boxer)
    John H. Clark was an Irish-American boxer.He was born in County Galway, but spent most of his childhood in England before moving to the United States. Clark was a clog and jig dancer before pursuing a career in prize-fighting...

    , boxer (d.1922
    1922 in Ireland
    -Events:*January 2 - The first edition of the newspaper Poblacht na hÉireann is published. It is established by republican opponents to the Anglo-Irish Treaty who declare their fealty to the Irish Republic....

    ).
  • 9 July — Robert McCall, lawyer (d.1934
    1934 in Northern Ireland
    -Events:*20 January - The funeral of the veteran nationalist Member of Parliament, Joseph Devlin, takes place in Belfast.*24 April - In a debate in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, the Prime Minister, Lord Craigavon, states "All I boast of is that we are a Protestant Parliament and a Protestant...

    ).
  • 1 August — William Larminie
    William Larminie
    William Larminie was an Irish poet and folklorist.He was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, of Huguenot descent and was educated at Kingstown School and Trinity College Dublin, from which he graduated in 1871 with a moderatorship in classics...

    , poet and folklorist (d.1900
    1900 in Ireland
    -Events:*January 16 — Three lion cubs reared by an Irish red setter go on view at Dublin Zoo.*January 17 — The different sections of the Nationalist Party meet in the Dublin Mansion House's Oak Room to promote national unity....

    ).
  • 16 August — James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington
    James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington
    James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington, GCVO, JP , known as Sir James Buchanan, Bt, between 1920 and 1922, was a British businessman, philanthropist and racehorse owner/breeder.-Background:...

    , businessman and philanthropist (d.1935
    1935 in Northern Ireland
    -Events:*1 April - The National Athletics and Cycling Association is suspended from the International Amateur Athletic Federation for refusing to confine its activities to the Free State side of the border....

    ).
  • 19 November — James Mason
    James Mason (chess player)
    James Mason was a famous chess player and writer. He was born in Kilkenny in Ireland. His original name is unknown: he was adopted as a child and only took the name James Mason when he and his family moved to the United States in 1861...

    , chess player and writer (d.1905
    1905 in Ireland
    -Events:*9 January - The Lillebonne, the largest vessel ever constructed in Dublin, is successfully launched in the North Wall Yard.*6 March - The obligation of the Post Office in regard to letters addressed in Irish is raised in the British House of Commons...

    ).

Full date unknown

  • Sir Nugent Everard, 1st Baronet
    Sir Nugent Everard, 1st Baronet
    Sir Nugent Talbot Everard, 1st Baronet was an Irish senator elected to the 1922 Seanad Éireann.Everard was nominated by the President of the Executive Council and sat as an independent member....

     soldier, Seanad member (d.1929
    1929 in Ireland
    -Events:*January 17 - All cats from abroad, except Great Britain, are to be kept in quarantine for a period of six months to avoid rabies.*February 8 - A Belfast court sentences Fianna Fáil leader, Éamon de Valera, to one month in jail for illegally entering County Armagh.*February 20 -...

    ).
  • Charles James O'Donnell
    Charles James O'Donnell
    Charles James O'Cahan O'Donnell was an Irish colonial administrator, politician and a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....

    , colonial administrator and MP (d.1934
    1934 in Ireland
    -Events:*January 12 - Republican Press Ltd. takes a High Court action against the Garda Síochána over the seizure of the An Phoblacht newspaper.*January 20 - The funeral of the veteran nationalist Member of Parliament, Joseph Devlin, takes place in Belfast....

    ).

Deaths

  • 21 January — Anthony Manahan
    Anthony Manahan
    Anthony Manahan was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in County Galway in the Ireland around 1794 and went to Trinidad around 1808. In 1820, he moved to Kingston in Upper Canada and began business as a merchant...

    , businessman and politician in Upper Canada
    Upper Canada
    The Province of Upper Canada was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution...

     (b. 1794
    1794 in Ireland
    -Events:*4 May - Dublin Society of United Irishmen suppressed.*Establishment of Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills.-Births:*9 January - Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools ....

    ).
  • 7 March — Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry
    Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry
    Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry was an hereditary knight and an Irish Whig politician.FitzGerald represented Kerry in the Irish House of Commons from 1795 until the Act of Union in 1801. He sat also for Tralee in 1800....

    , Whig
    British Whig Party
    The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...

     politician (b.1774
    1774 in Ireland
    -Births:*7 May - Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale .*11 July - Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, politician and statesman ....

    ).
  • 27 March — Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
    Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
    Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford GCB , styled The Honourable Archibald Acheson from 1790 to 1806 and Lord Acheson from 1806 to 1807, was a British politician who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America in the 19th century.-Background:Born at...

    , MP
    Member of Parliament
    A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

    , Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada
    Lower Canada
    The Province of Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence...

     and Governor General of British North America
    British North America
    British North America is a historical term. It consisted of the colonies and territories of the British Empire in continental North America after the end of the American Revolutionary War and the recognition of American independence in 1783.At the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775 the British...

     (b.1776
    1776 in Ireland
    -Births:*3 July - Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, politician. .*1 August - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, MP, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America ....

    ).
  • 22 May — Maria Edgeworth
    Maria Edgeworth
    Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe...

    , novelist (b.1767
    1767 in Ireland
    -Births:*1 January - Maria Edgeworth, novelist .*14 March - Charles Arbuthnot, Tory politician and member of the Privy Council .*19 May - Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, diplomat, Irish, and later British, MP ....

    ).
  • 20 June — James Clarence Mangan
    James Clarence Mangan
    James Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan was an Irish poet.-Early life:Mangan was the son of a former hedge school teacher who took over a grocery business and eventually became bankrupt....

    , poet (b.1803
    1803 in Ireland
    -Births:*2 March - Mary Frances Clarke, founder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary .*29 April - Paul Cullen, Cardinal and Catholic Primate of Ireland .*1 May - James Clarence Mangan, poet ....

    ).
  • 27 December — James Fintan Lalor
    James Fintan Lalor
    James Fintan Lalor was an Irish revolutionary, journalist, and “one of the most powerful writers of his day.” A leading member of the Irish Confederation , he was to play an active part in both the Rebellion in July 1848 and the attempted Rising in September of that same year...

    , revolutionary, journalist and writer (b.1807
    1807 in Ireland
    -Births:*7 March - John McCaul, educator, theologian, and the second president of the University of Toronto .*10 March - James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer .*27 September - John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St...

    ).

Full date unknown

  • Thomas Arbuthnot
    Thomas Arbuthnot
    Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot KCB was a British Army commander.-Military career:He was born in Rockfleet Castle, County Mayo, Ireland, the sixth son of John Arbuthnot, Sr of Rockfleet....

    , British military officer (b.1776
    1776 in Ireland
    -Births:*3 July - Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, politician. .*1 August - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, MP, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America ....

    ).
  • Joseph Henry Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt
    Baron Wallscourt
    Baron Wallscourt, of Ardfry in the County of Galway, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 31 July 1800 for Joseph Blake, with remainder, in default of male issue of his own, to the heirs male of the body of his father Joseph Blake. Blake had earlier represented County Galway in...

    , socialist (b.1797
    1797 in Ireland
    -Events:*General Lake's disarming of Ulster.*Henry Grattan retires from parliament.-Births:*2 June - Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist .*John Doyle, artist ....

    ).
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