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1851 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1851 in Ireland
.
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Decades:
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See also:
1851 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1851
List of years in Ireland
Events
edit
30 March – the
United Kingdom Census
shows that, as part of the
legacy of the Great Famine
, the population of Ireland has fallen to 6,575,000 – a drop of 1,600,000 in ten years.
[1]
[2]
This is the first census to note use of the
Irish language
.
[3]
1 August –
Midland Great Western Railway
extended from
Mullingar
to
Galway
.
[3]
7 August – Poor Relief (Ireland) Act provides for the establishment of dispensaries.
[3]
Construction of
MacNeill's Egyptian Arch
, a
railway bridge
near
Newry
on the
Dublin-Belfast railway line
is completed.
Tillie and Henderson open their first shirt factory in
Derry
.
Undated
edit
Ancestors of
Presidents of the United States
Barack Obama
and
Joe Biden
migrate from Ireland to the U.S.
[4]
Jacob's
brand of biscuits, bars and coffee is founded; their first biscuit is possibly Goldgrain.
Legacy of the Great Famine
Births
edit
8 January –
William McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim
, peer (died
1918
).
14 March –
Paddy Ryan
, boxer (died
1900
).
17 March –
Ted Sullivan
,
Major League Baseball
player and manager (died
1929 in the United States
).
21 March –
Henry Prittie, 4th Baron Dunalley
, peer and
Lord Lieutenant of County Tipperary
1905–1922 (died
1927
).
4 April –
James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy
, lawyer,
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
, first
Chairman of Seanad Éireann
(died
1931
).
22 May –
William Moxley
, representative from
Illinois's 6th congressional district
(died 1938 in the United states).
4 September –
John Dillon
,
land reform
agitator,
Irish Home Rule
activist,
nationalist
politician,
MP
and last leader of the
Irish Parliamentary Party
(died
1927
).
3 December –
George Noble Plunkett
, nationalist, politician, museum curator (died
1948
).
Deaths
edit
23 May –
Richard Lalor Sheil
, politician, writer and orator (born
1791
).
1 September –
Anne Devlin
, Irish republican and housekeeper to
Robert Emmet
(born
1780
).
Census
edit
Surviving 1851 Census Returns of Ireland
See also
edit
1851 in Scotland
1851 in Wales
References
edit
^
Ross, David (2002).
Ireland: History of a Nation
(New ed.). New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset. pp. 216, 313.
ISBN
1842051644
.
^
Ó Gráda, Cormac (2006).
Ireland’s Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
. University College Dublin Press. p. 3.
ISBN
1-904558-57-7
.
^
a
b
c
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
.
^
"Remarks by President Biden to the Houses of the Oireachtas".
The White House
. 2023-04-13
. Retrieved
2023-04-14
.