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1861 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1861 in Ireland
.
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See also:
1861 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1861
List of years in Ireland
Events
edit
8–10 April –
John George Adair
of
Glenveagh Castle
evicts tenants at
Derryveagh
in
County Donegal
.
[1]
[2]
18 June – completion and official inauguration of the
Wellington Monument, Dublin
, in
Phoenix Park
, built to the design of Sir
Robert Smirke
(begun
1817
).
[1]
21–30 August –
Queen Victoria
and
Prince Albert
, visit Ireland.
[1]
They visit the
Curragh Camp
where
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
, serving with the
Grenadier Guards
, has taken the actress
Nellie Clifden
as his first lover.
[3]
24 August –
Mater Misericordiae Hospital
is opened in
Dublin
by the
Sisters of Mercy
(architect: John Bourke).
[1]
17 September – the
SS
Great Eastern
, with a badly damaged rudder, anchors in
Cork Harbour
for temporary repairs.
[4]
Reconstruction of
Fort Camden
as part of the Cork Harbour defences begins.
Irish Famine (1861)
Arts and literature
edit
July –
Sheridan Le Fanu
becomes editor and proprietor of the
Dublin University Magazine
.
[5]
From October he begins serialization of his novel
The House by the Churchyard
in it.
Sport
edit
Malahide Cricket Club
founded.
Births
edit
23 January –
Katharine Tynan
, novelist and poet (died
1931
).
6 February –
George Tyrrell
, expelled
Jesuit
priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (died
1909
).
19 March –
Joseph MacRory
,
Cardinal
,
Archbishop of Armagh
and
Primate of All Ireland
(died
1945
).
[6]
15 April –
William Hoey Kearney Redmond
, nationalist politician, barrister, brother of
John Redmond
, killed in
Battle of Messines
(died
1917
).
21 June –
Nathaniel Thomas Hone
, cricketer (died
1881
).
16 October –
J. B. Bury
, historian, classical scholar and philologist (died
1927
).
3 November –
Thomas O'Brien Butler
, composer (died
1915
in the
sinking of RMS
Lusitania
).
5 November –
Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet
, cricketer (died
1948
).
Full date unknown
Frank Duffy
, labour leader in America (died
1955
).
Nathaniel Hill
, artist (died
1934
).
Leonard Greenham Star Molloy
, soldier, doctor, M.P. (died
1937
)
Deaths
edit
13 May –
William Henry Fitton
, geologist (born
1780
).
19 May –
Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball
, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools (born
1794
).
27 June –
Robert O'Hara Burke
, explorer of Australia (born
1821
).
11 August –
Catherine Hayes
,
opera
diva
(born
1818
).
10 December –
John O'Donovan
, scholar and first historic topographer (born
1806
).
See also
edit
1861 in Scotland
1861 in Wales
References
edit
^
a
b
c
d
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
.
^
"Owners & Evictions". Glenveagh National Park. Archived from the original on October 21, 2009
. Retrieved
2013-01-03
.
^
Hibbert, Christopher
(2000).
Queen Victoria: A Personal History
. London: HarperCollins.
ISBN
0-00-638843-4
.
^
"The Great Eastern in a Storm — she Experiences a terrific gale and Breaks her Rudder, &c.",
The Daily Dispatch
, 1861-10-22
, retrieved
2013-03-21
^
McCormack, W. J. (1997).
Sheridan Le Fanu.
Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing.
ISBN
0-7509-1489-0 pp. 198–199.
^
"MultiText – Joseph Macroy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10
. Retrieved
2007-04-14
.