1863 in Ireland

Events

*The Ulster Railway, which began construction in 1839, reaches Clones.
*28 November - First edition of "The Irish People". [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 377]

Arts and Literature

*Sheridan Le Fanu publishes "The House by the Churchyard".

Births

*1 February - George Carew, 4th Baron Carew (d.1926).
*10 March - Elizabeth Watkins, born in Ireland, lived to be the oldest person in the world (d.1973).
*17 March - P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of San Francisco (d.1933).
*31 March - Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician (d.1961).
*2 April - Mabel Cahill, tennis player.
*9 April - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (d.1951).
*12 August - Margaretta Eagar, nurse for the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and memoirist (d.1936).
*25 August - Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (d.1899).
*7 September - Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Royal Navy hydrographic surveyor, murdered by Irish Republican Army (d.1936).
*26 September - Caesar Litton Falkiner, Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer and historian (d.1908).
*24 November - Frederick Thomas Trouton, physicist responsible for Trouton's Rule (d.1922).

Full date unknown

*F Elrington Ball, author and legal historian (d.1928).
*John Mahony, Kerry hurler (d.1943).

Deaths

*1 January - Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at Little Inkerman (b.1806).
*16 February - Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (b.1822).
*21 February - Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action (b.1826).
*6 May - Robert Arbuthnot, British military officer (b.1773).
*7 July - William Mulready, painter (b.1786).
*8 July - Francis Kenrick, headed the Diocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore (b.1796).
*24 July - Thomas Arthur Bellew, landowner and politician (b.1820).
*17 October - John Dunlay, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (b.1831).
*10 December - James FitzGibbon, British soldier and hero of the War of 1812 (b.1782).
*10 December - Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of New York National Academy of Design (b.1797).

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