1858 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1858 in Ireland.

Events

• 17 March - In Dublin, James Stephens founds the revolutionary organisation which becomes known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood.^[1][2]
• Edward Harland, at this time general manager, buys the small shipyard on Queen's Island, Belfast, from his employer Robert Hickson in conjunction with Gustav Wilhelm Wolff.^[3]
• Ballinacourty lighthouse at Dungarvan harbour built.

Arts and literature

• First free public library in Ireland opens in Dundalk.

Births

• 11 January - Mildred Anne Butler, painter (died 1941).
• 13 February - James Murray Irwin, British Army doctor (died 1938).
• 6 March - Coslett Herbert Waddell, priest and botanist (died 1919).
• 11 March - Tom Clarke, republican (born in England; executed 1916).
• 2 May - Edith Anna Somerville, novelist (died 1949).
• 19 May - Mike Cleary, boxer (died 1893).
• 5 October - Thomas Cusack, Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois (died 1926).

Full date unknown

• Marjorie Robinson, artist (died 1924).

Deaths

• 4 March - John Ryan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, killed in action (born 1823).
• 26 April - Francis Murphy, first Roman Catholic bishop of Adelaide, South Australia (born 1795).
• 22 July - Mary Aikenhead, founder of the Sisters of Charity (born 1787).
• 28 July - Alexander Wright, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (born 1826).
• 17 August - Robert Cane, doctor, member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation, Mayor of Kilkenny (born 1807).

Full date unknown

• John Hogan, sculptor (born 1800).
• Benjamin Lett, bomber and arsonist in America and Canada (born 1813).
• James Roche Verling, British Army surgeon, became personal surgeon to Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena (born 1787).

References

1. Cronin, Seán (1972). The McGarrity Papers. Tralee: Anvil Books. p. 11.
2. Ryan, Desmond (1967). The Fenian Chief: A Biography of James Stephens. Dublin: Hely Thom. p. 1.
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.