1857 in Ireland

Events

*April - General election. [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 376]

Arts and literature

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Births

*7 February - Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (d.1952).
*11 March - Tom Clarke, nationalist, rebel and organiser of the Easter Rising, executed (d.1916).
*19 April - Patrick Stone, Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (d.1942).
*20 April - Thomas Myles, surgeon, Home Ruler, involved in importation of arms for the Irish Volunteers in 1914 (d.1937).
*19 May - William Morgan Jellett, Irish Unionist MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom (d.1936).
*1 August - Alan Joseph Adamson, politician in Canada (d.1928).
*22 August - William Dowler Morris, mayor of Ottawa (d.1931).
*1 November - W. H. Grattan Flood, musicologist and historian (d.1928).
*1 November, John Joly, scientist (d.1933).

Full date unknown

*Margaret Pearse, Fianna Fáil politician, mother of Patrick Pearse and Willie Pearse (d.1932).
*Sir Henry Robinson, 1st Baronet, civil servant (d.1927).
*T. W. Rolleston, writer, poet and translator (d.1920).

Deaths

*29 January - John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea (b.1830).
*3 March - William Brown, creator and first admiral of the Argentine Navy (b.1777).
*9 April - Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (b.1830).
*11 July - John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa (b.1811).
*10 August - John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (b.1780).
*19 September - John Purcell, soldier, receipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India, later killed in action (b.1814).
*23 September - John Nicholson, military hero in India (b.1822).
*17 December - Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale (b.1774).

Full date unknown

*Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (b.1797).

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