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1820 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1820 in Ireland
.
←
1819
1818
1817
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in
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1821
1822
1823
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Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1800s
1810s
1820s
1830s
1840s
See also:
1820 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1820
List of years in Ireland
Events
edit
30 January – Irish-born
Royal Navy
captain
Edward Bransfield
in the
Williams
is the first person positively to identify
Antarctica
as a land mass.
[1]
12 February – the
East Indian
and
Fanny
set sail from
Cork
with
settlers
for the
Cape Colony
.
[2]
6 May – failure of Newport's Bank in
Waterford
.
[3]
25 May – failure of Roche's Bank and stoppage of Leslie's Bank in
Cork
.
[2]
3 June – the
Roman Catholic
Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne
in
Cork
is largely destroyed by
arson
.
[4]
8 July – act for lighting the city and suburbs of Dublin with gas.
[2]
20 July –
Saint Cronan's Boys' National School
opens in
Bray
,
County Wicklow
, as the Bray Male School.
December – Lough Allen Canal, giving through navigation between
Carrick-on-Shannon
and
Lough Allen
, opens.
[5]
The
Royal Dublin Society
adopts its "Royal" prefix when the new king
George IV of the United Kingdom
becomes its
patron
.
[6]
Suspension of construction of the
Wellington Testimonial, Dublin
, in
Phoenix Park
to the design of
Robert Smirke
.
[2]
First
steamship
on the
Irish Sea
crossing from Dublin to
Liverpool
, the
Waterloo
, introduced by George Langtry of Belfast.
Frederick Bourne begins to create the village of
Ashbourne, County Meath
.
Publication of
James Hardiman
's
The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time
in Dublin.
Denny Meats are founded.
Arts and literature
edit
Charles Maturin
(anonymously) publishes
Melmoth the Wanderer
.
Regina Maria Roche
publishes
The Munster Cottage Boy: a Tale
.
Births
edit
19 February –
John Tuigg
, third
Roman Catholic
Bishop
of
Pittsburgh
, Pennsylvania (died
1889 in the United States
).
31 May –
Timothy Burns
,
Lieutenant Governor
of
Wisconsin
from 1851 to 1853 (died
1853
).
3 June –
Thomas William Moffett
, scholar, educationalist and president of
Queen's College Galway
(died
1908
).
4 June –
John Kean
, businessman and politician in
Ontario
(died
1892
).
2 August –
John Tyndall
, physicist (died
1893
).
6 October –
James Travers
, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
for gallantry in 1857 at
Indore
,
India
(died
1884
).
22 November –
Katherine Plunket
, botanical artist and longest-lived Irish person ever (died
1932
).
30 December –
Mary Anne Sadlier
, novelist (died
1903
).
Full date unknown
Thomas Bellew
, Galway landowner and politician (died
1863
).
John F. Kennedy
's great-grandfather was born in the village of Dunganstown in County Wexford.
Johnston Drummond
, early settler of
Western Australia
,
botanical
and
zoological
collector (died
1845
).
Ambrose Madden
, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
for gallantry in 1854 in the
Crimea
, at Little Inkerman (died
1863
).
Patrick Mylott
, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
for gallantry in 1857 in
India
(died
1878
).
Henry Hamilton O'Hara "Mad O'hara"
, "The Mad Squire of Craigbilly" (died
1875
).
Kivas Tully
, architect (died
1905
).
Deaths
edit
29 January –
George III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
(born 1738).
5 February –
William Drennan
,
physician
, poet, educationalist and co-founder of the
Society of United Irishmen
(born
1754
).
13 February –
Leonard McNally
, informant against members of the Society of United Irishmen (born
1752
).
20 March –
Eaton Stannard Barrett
, poet and author (born
1786
).
6 June –
Henry Grattan
, member of Irish House of Commons and campaigner for legislative freedom for the
Irish Parliament
(born
1746
).
Undated –
Anthony Daly
, a leader of the
Whiteboy
movement, hanged for attempted
murder
.
See also
edit
1820 in Scotland
1820 in Wales
References
edit
^
Jones, A. G. E. (1982).
Antarctica Observed: who discovered the Antarctic Continent?
. Caedmon of Whitby.
ISBN
0-905355-25-3
.
^
a
b
c
d
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
.
^
Grogan, Patrick (2017). "A failed bank of Waterford in the eighteen-hundreds".
Decies
.
73
. Waterford: 11–18.
^
"Rebuilding". Cork: Cathedral Parish
. Retrieved
17 July
2012
.
[
permanent dead link
]
^
Delany, Ruth (1988).
A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways
. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 56.
ISBN
0-86281-200-3
.
^
Royal Dublin Society, The; Meenan, James; Clarke, Desmond (1981).
RDS: The Royal Dublin Society, 1731–1981
. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 30.
ISBN
978-0-7171-1125-1
.