1836 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1836 in Ireland.

Events

• 30 January - The Intrinsic sinks off Kilkee with the loss of all fourteen on board.^[1][2]
• February - Foundation of the Ulster Bank in Belfast.
• 4 April - Daniel O'Connell gives a speech on "Justice for Ireland".
• 4 May - The Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, is founded in New York City.
• 23 May - Irish Constabulary Act provides central organisation for the police in Ireland.^[3]
• 4 June - The Sligo Champion newspaper is first published.^[4]
• August - Following one of the coldest summers in over fifty years there is widespread failure of the potato crop.
• End of Tithe War.
• Foundation of the Royal Bank of Ireland, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks.
• Foundation of the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
• Irish emigration to Montevideo, Uruguay, peaks.^[5][6]

Arts and literature

• Francis Sylvester Mahony's light verse The Reliques of Father Prout published.

Births

• 17 January - William MacCormac, surgeon (died 1901).
• 16 February - Robert Halpin, master mariner (died 1894).
• May - Thomas Lane, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (died 1889).
• 9 June - Henry Arthur McArdle, painter in the United States (died 1908).
• 10 October - Dalton McCarthy, lawyer and politician in Canada (died 1898).

Deaths

• 31 March - Edward Southwell Ruthven, Repealer politician and member of the United Kingdom Parliament (b. c. 1772)
• 8 August - James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, politician (born 1755).
• 21 August - William Cusac Smith, Baronet, judge (born 1766)

References

1. "Intrinsic Shipwreck Kilkee". County Clare Travel Guide. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
2. O Rourke, Mick (2008-11-25). "Intrinsic". Irish Shipwrecks. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
3. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 260–261. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
4. Harkin, Greg (2011-09-19). "Still the reigning Champion after 175 great years". Irish Independent.
5. McWilliams, David (2008). The generation game. Macmillan. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-230-70651-4. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
6. Murray, Edmundo (2009). Becoming gauchos Ingleses: diasporic models in Irish-Argentine literature. Maunsel and Co. ISBN 978-1-933146-67-6. Retrieved 25 May 2011.