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1850 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1850 in Ireland
.
←
1849
1848
1847
1846
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1850
in
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1851
1852
1853
1854
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Centuries:
17th
18th
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20th
21st
Decades:
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
See also:
1850 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1850
List of years in Ireland
Events
edit
Ongoing –
Great Famine
subsides.
[1]
31 March – the
paddle steamer
RMS
Royal Adelaide
(1838)
, bound from
Cork
to
London
, sinks in the
English Channel
with the loss of all 250 on board.
[2]
October –
Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum for Ireland
opened in
Dundrum, Dublin
, the first secure hospital in Europe.
[3]
19 November – the
barque
Edmond
sinks off
Kilkee
with the loss of 98 of the 216 aboard.
Improved navigation of
River Shannon
throughout from
Killaloe
to
Lough Key
is completed.
[4]
The Encumbered Estates Commissioners sell off remaining
Donegall
estate properties in
Belfast
to the tenants.
[5]
Crumlin Road Courthouse
in Belfast is completed.
Arts and literature
edit
Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre
's poem
Cúirt An Mheán Oíche
is first published from the oral tradition in an edition by the scholar John O'Daly.
Tara Brooch
(c.700 AD) found near
Laytown
,
County Meath
.
Sport
edit
27 February – Abd El Kader wins the
Aintree
Grand National
in
England
, having been trained at
Dardistown Castle
by his owner, Joe Osborne.
Deaths
edit
10 January –
William Reid Clanny
, physician and inventor of the
Clanny safety lamp
for miners (born
1770
).
6 August –
Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
, peer (born
1782
).
13 August –
Martin Archer Shee
, painter (born
1769
).
18 August –
Charles Arbuthnot
,
Tory
politician
and member of the
Privy Council
(born
1767
).
10 October –
Jon Riley
, deserter from
United States Army
, a founder of the
San Patricios
(born
1805
).
29 December –
William Hamilton Maxwell
, novelist (born
1792
).
Births
edit
25 April –
William Melville
, police officer and first chief of the British Secret Service (died
1918
).
9 June –
Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony
, Nationalist politician, barrister and philanthropist (died
1930
).
24 June –
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
,
British Field Marshal
and statesman (drowned
1916
).
17 July –
Edmond Holmes
, educationalist, writer on religion and poet (died
1936
).
12 September –
James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon
,
Deputy Lieutenant
in
Ireland
(died
1924
).
8 October –
Matthias McDonnell Bodkin
, Nationalist politician, barrister and journalist (died
1933
).
22 December –
Thomas O'Shaughnessy
, lawyer and judge (died
1933
).
Full date unknown
Thomas Lough
,
Liberal
politician in Britain,
Lord Lieutenant of Cavan
(died
1922
).
Samuel Shumack
, farmer and author in
Australia
(died
1940 in Australia
).
See also
edit
1850 in Scotland
1850 in Wales
References
edit
^
Ross, David (2002).
Ireland: History of a Nation
(New ed.). New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset. p. 313.
ISBN
1842051644
.
^
"
Royal Adelaide
(+1850)".
wrecksite
. Retrieved
2011-08-18
.
^
"Central Asylum, Dundrum".
Kings County Chronicle
. 1850-10-09. p. 3.
^
Delany, Ruth (1988).
A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways
. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 129.
ISBN
0-86281-200-3
.
^
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
.