1843 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1843 in Ireland.

Events

• January - Daniel O'Connell proclaims 1843 as the "Repeal Year".^[1]
• 31 January - Queen's Bridge in Belfast opens.^[2]
• 21 February - Repeal (of the Act of Union) debate in Dublin Corporation.^[1]
• 17 March - Earthquake in the Irish Sea.^[3]
• 11 June
  • Series of monster meetings to agitate for repeal begins at Tuam.^[1]
  • O'Connell's "Mallow defiance".^[1]
• 15 August - Repeal meeting at Tara.^[1]
• 17 August - Loreto Abbey, Dalkey opened as a girls' boarding and day school by the Sisters of Loreto.
• 18 August - Dalkey Atmospheric Railway opens unofficially.
• 7 October - O'Connell gives in to government prohibition of Clontarf meeting planned for the next day. However, he is charged with conspiracy a few days later.^[1]
• November - Devon Commission appointed to research the problems with land leases.^[1]
• Work starts on the building of Crumlin Road Prison in Belfast.

Arts and literature

• Charles Lever's novel Arthur O'Leary: His wanderings and ponderings in many lands is published serially in Dublin University Magazine and Tom Burke of Ours begins serial publication in Dublin.

Births

• 11 January - C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia (died 1902).
• 3 May - Edward Dowden, critic and poet (died 1913).
• 6 November - William James Craig, Shakespearean scholar (died 1906).
• 24 November - Richard Croker, politician in America and a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall (died 1922).
• 21 December - Thomas Bracken, poet (died 1898 in New Zealand).
• 25 December - Albert Cashier, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, physically female, but lived as a man (died 1915).
• 28 December - George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian (died 1898).

Full date unknown

• George Fisher, Mayor of Wellington (died 1905 in New Zealand).
• Joanna Hiffernan, artists' model.
• James McParland, Pinkerton detective agent (died 1919 in the United States).

Deaths

• 19 February - Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor (born 1796).
• 11 May - William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey, politician and statesman (born 1783).^[4]
• 10 August - Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (born 1775).
• 16 November - Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (born 1773).
• 21 December - Edward Bunting, musician (born 1773).

References

1. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., ed. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 375.
2. Graham, Joe (2003). "Belfast History Through The Years". Retrieved 2011-03-30.
3. "Notes on individual earthquakes". British Geological Survey. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
4. Clare People: William Vesey-FitzGerald