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1860 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1860 in Ireland
.
←
1859
1858
1857
1856
1855
1860
in
Ireland
→
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
See also:
1860 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1860
List of years in Ireland
Events
edit
25 February – £11,000 collected at church doors in Dublin to finance the Pope's defence against the
Risorgimento
in Italy; £80,000 collected nationwide (the equivalent of several millions of modern-day Euros).
[1]
28 August –
Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment (Ireland) Act 1860
("Deasy's Land Act"),
[2]
intended to reform tenants' rights.
September –
Myles O'Reilly
's "Battalion of St Patrick" assist in the unsuccessful defence of
Spoleto
against the Risorgimento.
3 November – The Catholic
Ballaghaderreen Cathedral
is consecrated and opened.
11 November –
Kildare Street Club
, Dublin, destroyed by fire.
21–23 November – Partry evictions, County Mayo: 68 families turned out of their houses by Thomas Plunket, Church of Ireland Bishop of Tuam.
[1]
Construction begins on the
Roman Catholic
church that will become
St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast
.
Arts and literature
edit
27 March – the
melodrama
The Colleen Bawn
, or The Brides of Garryowen
, written by and starring
Dion Boucicault
, is first performed at
Laura Keene's Theatre
,
New York
.
[3]
Dr.
George Sigerson
's
The Poets and Poetry of Munster
is published.
Anthony Trollope
's novel
Castle Richmond
, set during the
Great Famine
, is completed and published in England.
[4]
Births
edit
1 January –
John Cassidy
, sculptor and painter (died
1939
).
17 January –
Douglas Hyde
, member of the
Seanad
in 1922 and 1938; first
President of Ireland
and Gaelic scholar (died
1949
).
1 June –
Hugh Thomson
, illustrator (died
1920
).
8 June –
Alicia Boole Stott
, mathematician (died
1940
).
25 June –
John Danaher
, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
for gallantry in 1881 near
Pretoria
,
South Africa
(died
1919
).
23 July –
Thomas Preston
, scientist (died
1900
).
8 December –
Amanda McKittrick Ros
, born Anna McKittrick, novelist and poet noted for her purple prose (died
1939
).
[5]
25 December –
Patrick S. Dinneen
, lexicographer and historian (died
1934
).
Deaths
edit
12 February –
William Francis Patrick Napier
, soldier and military historian (born
1785
).
17 March –
Anna Brownell Jameson
, writer (born
1794
).
23 October –
Peter Boyle de Blaquière
, politician in
Canada
and first chancellor of the
University of Toronto
(born
1783
).
24 November –
George Croly
, poet, novelist, historian and divine (born
1780
)
[6]
See also
edit
1860 in Scotland
1860 in Wales
References
edit
^
a
b
Doherty, J. E.; Hickey, D. J. (1989).
A Chronology of Irish History since 1500
. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. pp. 138.
ISBN
0-7171-1634-4
.
^
Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967).
The Course of Irish History
. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 377.
^
Parkin, Andrew, ed. (1987).
Selected Plays - Dion Boucicault
. Guernsey Press Co. p. 192.
^
Mullen, Richard (1996).
The Penguin Companion to Trollope
. London: Penguin Books.
^
Ormsby, Frank (1988).
Thine in Storm and Calm: An Amanda McKittrick Ros Reader
. Belfast St Paul: Blackstaff Press. p. 2.
ISBN
978-0-85640-408-5
.
^
Chambers' Book of Days