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1803 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1803 in Ireland
.
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Decades:
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See also:
1803 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1803
List of years in Ireland
Events
edit
23 July – Emmet's insurrection:
United Irishman
Robert Emmet
stages a rising in
Dublin
which is quelled by the military, with approximately fifty rebels and twenty soldiers dead.
[1]
The
Lord Chief Justice of Ireland
,
Lord Kilwarden
, is hacked to death. Neither
Michael Dwyer
(from
County Wicklow
), nor
Thomas Russell
(in the North), nor rebels from
Kildare
, are able to offer support for the rebellion as planned.
25 August – Emmet is captured near
Harold's Cross
.
19 September – Emmet, found guilty of
high treason
at the Sessions House, Dublin, delivers his
Speech from the Dock
, including the phrase "Let no man write my epitaph."
20 September – Emmet is
hanged
in
Thomas Street, Dublin
.
[2]
21 October –
Thomas Russell
, co-founder of the
Society of United Irishmen
, is hanged at
Downpatrick
Gaol.
December – the
Wicklow
rebel leader
Michael Dwyer
capitulates to the government and is held in
Kilmainham Gaol
.
The new
Bank of Ireland
buys the former Irish
Parliament House
on
College Green
in Dublin from the
Government of the United Kingdom
for conversion to its headquarters by
Francis Johnston
.
Belvelly
Bridge, linking
Great Island
to the mainland of
County Cork
, is built.
Arts and literature
edit
11 August – child actor
Master Betty
makes his debut in Belfast, followed on 28 November by Dublin.
[3]
Births
edit
2 March –
Mary Frances Clarke
, founder of the
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(died
1887
).
3 April –
James Gamble
, soapmaker (died
1891 in the United States
).
29 April –
Paul Cullen
,
Cardinal
and Catholic
Primate of Ireland
(died
1878
).
1 May –
James Clarence Mangan
, poet (died
1849
).
May –
Francis Kelly
, surveyor, business agent, farmer, and politician in Canada (died
1879
).
17 October –
William Smith O'Brien
, nationalist (died
1864
).
12 December –
Gerald Griffin
, novelist, poet and playwright (died
1840
).
Full date unknown
John Kinder Labatt
, brewer in Canada (died
1866
).
Execution of
Robert Emmet
Deaths
edit
23 January –
Arthur Guinness
, brewer and founder of the
Guinness
Brewery business and
family
(born
1725
).
21 February – Colonel
Edward Despard
,
British Army
officer and radical (born
1751
) (executed).
31 May –
Robert Jephson
, soldier, politician and dramatist (born
1736
).
11 July –
Thomas Hussey
,
diplomat
,
chaplain
, and Bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore
(born
1746
).
23 July –
Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden
,
Lord Chief Justice of Ireland
(born
1739
) (murdered).
24 August –
James Napper Tandy
, rebel leader (born
1740
).
29 August –
Samuel Neilson
, co-founder of the
Society of United Irishmen
and founder of its newspaper, the
Northern Star
(born
1761
).
20 September –
Robert Emmet
, leader of the Society of United Irishmen and instigator of the 1803 rebellion (born
1778
) (executed).
21 October –
Thomas Russell
, co-founder of the Society of United Irishmen and rebel leader (born
1767
) (executed).
See also
edit
1803 in Scotland
1803 in Wales
References
edit
^
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 239–240.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.
^
Playfair, Giles (1967).
The Prodigy
. London: Secker & Warburg.