1849 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1849 in Ireland.
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Events
- 21 April — Great Famine: 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse have died over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high. This year's potato crop again fails and there are renewed outbreaks of cholera.[1]
- 12 July — Battle of Dolly's Brae: Up to 1400 armed Orangemen march from Rathfriland to Tollymore Park near Castlewellan, County Down. When 1000 armed Ribbonmen gather, shots are fired, Catholic homes are burnt and about eighty Catholics killed.[2]
- 16 July — Donaghadee to Portpatrick packet service withdrawn.[3]
- 2–12 August — Visit of Queen Victoria to Cork, Dublin and Belfast,[4] landing on 3 August at Cove, which is renamed Queenstown in her honour, and departing from Kingstown. She officially opens Queen's Bridge in Belfast.
- 18 October — Great Southern and Western Railway opens to Cork.[5][6]
- Construction begins on the 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry, on the Dublin-Belfast railway line (opened in 1852).
- George Boole appointed as first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork.[7]
- William Thompson begins publication (in London) of The Natural History of Ireland with the first volume on birds.
Arts and literature
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Sport
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Births
- 31 January — Robert James McMordie, solicitor, politician and Lord Mayor of Belfast (died 1914).
- 12 February — John Edward Robinson, Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
- 18 May — John Clark, boxer (died 1922).
- 9 July — Robert McCall, lawyer (died 1934).
- 1 August — William Larminie, poet and folklorist (died 1900).
- 16 August — James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington, businessman and philanthropist (died 1935).
- 19 November — James Mason, chess player and writer (died 1905).
Full date unknown
- Sir Nugent Everard, 1st Baronet soldier, Seanad member (died 1929).
- Charles James O'Donnell, colonial administrator and MP (died 1934).
Deaths
- 21 January — Anthony Manahan, businessman and politician in Upper Canada (born 1794).
- 7 March — Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry, Whig politician (born 1774).
- 27 March — Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, MP, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America (born 1776).
- 22 May — Maria Edgeworth, novelist (born 1767).
- 20 June — James Clarence Mangan, poet (born 1803) (cholera).
- 27 December — James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer (born 1807).
Full date unknown
- Thomas Arbuthnot, British military officer (born 1776).
- Joseph Henry Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist (born 1797).
References
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