1849 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1849 in Ireland.

Events

• 21 April — Great Famine: 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse have died over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high. This year's potato crop again fails and there are renewed outbreaks of cholera.^[1]
• 12 July — Battle of Dolly's Brae: Up to 1400 armed Orangemen march from Rathfriland to Tollymore Park near Castlewellan, County Down. When 1000 armed Ribbonmen gather, shots are fired, Catholic homes are burnt and about eighty Catholics killed.^[2]
• 16 July — Donaghadee to Portpatrick packet service withdrawn.^[3]
• 2–12 August — Visit of Queen Victoria to Cork, Dublin and Belfast,^[4] landing on 3 August at Cove, which is renamed Queenstown in her honour, and departing from Kingstown. She officially opens Queen's Bridge in Belfast.
• 18 October — Great Southern and Western Railway opens to Cork.^[5][6]
• Construction begins on the 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry, on the Dublin-Belfast railway line (opened in 1852).
• George Boole appointed as first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork.^[7]
• William Thompson begins publication (in London) of The Natural History of Ireland with the first volume on birds.

Births

• 31 January — Robert James McMordie, solicitor, politician and Lord Mayor of Belfast (died 1914).
• 12 February — John Edward Robinson, Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
• 18 May — John Clark, boxer (died 1922).
• 9 July — Robert McCall, lawyer (died 1934).
• 1 August — William Larminie, poet and folklorist (died 1900).
• 16 August — James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington, businessman and philanthropist (died 1935).
• 19 November — James Mason, chess player and writer (died 1905).

Full date unknown

• Sir Nugent Everard, 1st Baronet soldier, Seanad member (died 1929).
• Charles James O'Donnell, colonial administrator and MP (died 1934).

Deaths

• 21 January — Anthony Manahan, businessman and politician in Upper Canada (born 1794).
• 7 March — Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry, Whig politician (born 1774).
• 27 March — Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, MP, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America (born 1776).
• 22 May — Maria Edgeworth, novelist (born 1767).
• 20 June — James Clarence Mangan, poet (born 1803) (cholera).
• 27 December — James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer (born 1807).

Full date unknown

• Thomas Arbuthnot, British military officer (born 1776).
• Joseph Henry Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist (born 1797).

References

1. Ross, David (2002). Ireland: History of a Nation (New ed.). New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset. p. 313. ISBN 1842051644.
2. "Parades and Marches — Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
3. Ayres, George. History of the Mail Routes to Ireland until 1850. p. 22.
4. Connolly, Sean (2008). "Queen Victoria in Ireland, August 1849". Irish History Live. Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
5. "Steaming into the Future". Ask about Ireland. Retrieved 2013-01-05.
6. Myers, Kevin (1999). "The Opening of the Mallow-Cork Railway 18th October 1849". Mallow Field Club Journal 17.
7. Boole Centre for Research in Informatics