1843 in Ireland

1843 in Ireland

Events

*January - Daniel O'Connell proclaims 1843 as the "Repeal Year".cite book | last=Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds)| year=1967 |title=The Course of Irish History | publisher=The Mercier Press | location=Cork, Ireland | pages=p 375]
*21 February - Repeal (of the Act of Union) debate in Dublin Corporation.
*11 June - Series of monster meetings to agitate for repeal begins at Tuam.
*11 June - O'Connell's "Mallow defiance".
*15 August - Repeal meeting at Tara.
*7 October - O'Connell gives in to government prohibition of Clontarf meeting planned for the next day.
*Daniel O'Connell charged with conspiracy.
*November - Devon Commission appointed to research the problems with land leases.
*Work started on the building of Crumlin Road (HM Prison) in Belfast.

Births

*11 January - C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia (d.1902).
*3 May - Edward Dowden, critic and poet (d.1913).
*24 November - Richard Croker, politician in America and a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall (d.1922).
*25 December - Albert Cashier, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, physically female, but lived as a man (d.1915).
*28 December - George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian (d.1898).

Full date unknown

*George Fisher, Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand (d.1905).

Deaths

*19 February - Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor (b.1796).
*11 May - William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey, politician and statesman (b.1783) [ [http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/william_vesey_fitzgerald.htm/ Clare People: William Vesey-FitzGerald] ] .
*10 August - Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (b.1775).

Full date unknown

*Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (b.1773).

References


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