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1858 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1858 in Ireland
.
←
1857
1856
1855
1854
1853
1858
in
Ireland
→
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
See also:
1858 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1858
List of years in Ireland
Events
edit
17 March – In
Dublin
,
James Stephens
founds the revolutionary organisation which becomes known as the
Irish Republican Brotherhood
.
[1]
[2]
Edward Harland
, at this time general manager, buys the small shipyard on Queen's Island,
Belfast
, from his employer Robert Hickson in conjunction with
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
.
[3]
Ballinacourty
lighthouse at
Dungarvan
harbour built.
Arts and literature
edit
First free
public library
in Ireland opens in
Dundalk
.
Sport
edit
Births
edit
11 January –
Mildred Anne Butler
, painter (died
1941
).
13 February –
James Murray Irwin
, British Army doctor (died
1938
).
6 March –
Coslett Herbert Waddell
, priest and botanist (died
1919
).
11 March –
Tom Clarke
, republican (born in England; executed
1916
).
2 May –
Edith Anna Somerville
, novelist (died
1949
).
19 May –
Mike Cleary
, boxer (died
1893
).
5 October –
Thomas Cusack
,
Democrat
U.S. Representative
from
Illinois
(died
1926
).
Full date unknown
Anne Marjorie Robinson
, artist (died
1924
).
Deaths
edit
4 March –
John Ryan
, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
for gallantry in 1857 at
Lucknow
,
India
, killed in action (born
1823
).
26 April –
Francis Murphy
, first
Roman Catholic
bishop
of
Adelaide
,
South Australia
(born
1795
).
22 July –
Mary Aikenhead
, founder of the
Sisters of Charity
(born
1787
).
28 July –
Alexander Wright
, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
for gallantry in 1855 at
Sebastopol
, in the
Crimea
(born
1826
).
17 August –
Robert Cane
, doctor, member of the
Repeal Association
and the
Irish Confederation
, Mayor of
Kilkenny
(born
1807
).
Full date unknown
John Hogan
, sculptor (born
1800
).
Benjamin Lett
, bomber and arsonist in America and Canada (born
1813
).
James Roche Verling
,
British Army
surgeon
, became personal surgeon to
Napoleon Bonaparte
on
St Helena
(born
1787
).
See also
edit
1858 in Scotland
1858 in Wales
References
edit
^
Cronin, Seán
(1972).
The McGarrity Papers
. Tralee: Anvil Books. p. 11.
^
Ryan, Desmond (1967).
The Fenian Chief: A Biography of James Stephens
. Dublin: Hely Thom. p. 1.
^
Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989).
A New History of Ireland.
8
: A Chronology of Irish History
. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-821744-2
.