1839 in Ireland

1839 in Ireland

Events

*The Ulster Railway began construction of a railway line between Belfast and Lisburn.
*Marquess of Donegall lays the foundation stone for the Palm House in Belfast Botanic Gardens.

Births

*6 January - Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and diplomat (d.1901).
*16 March - John Butler Yeats, artist and father of William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats (d.1922).
*27 March - John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand (d.1893).
*1 April - St. Clair Augustine Mulholland, American Civil War officer (d.1910).
*27 April - Charles Frederick Houghton, soldier and politician in Canada (d.1898).
*10 May - Thomas Joseph Carr, second Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia (d.1917).
*11 July - William John Hennessy, artist (d.1917).
*5 September - Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet, Liberal Party MP (d.1909).
*4 November - Thomas MacDonald Patterson, politician and newspaper publisher in the USA (d.1916).
*24 November - James William Adams, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Killa Kazi, Afghanistan (d.1903).
*30 December - John Todhunter, poet and playwright (d.1916).

Full date unknown

*William Lundon, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (d.1909).
*John Pentland Mahaffy, classicist (d.1919).
*Thomas Murphy, recipient of the Victoria Cross for bravery at sea in saving life in a storm off the Andaman Islands in 1867 (d.1900).

Deaths

*18 November - Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (b.1758).
*Gideon Ouseley, Methodism's 'apostle to the Irish' (b.1762).


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