1863 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1863 in Ireland.

Events

• 2 March - The Ulster Railway, which began construction in 1839, reaches Clones.
• 10 March - Riots in Cork, related to nationalist unrest.^[1]
• 21 August - American clipper Anglo Saxon westbound is captured and burned by Confederate privateer Florida off Old Head of Kinsale.^[2]
• 28 November - First edition of The Irish People.^[3]

Arts and literature

• Belleek Pottery begins to produce Parian Ware.
• Sheridan Le Fanu publishes The House by the Churchyard.

Births

• 1 February - George Carew, 4th Baron Carew (died 1926).
• 17 March - P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of San Francisco (died 1933).
• 31 March - Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician (died 1961).
• 2 April - Mabel Cahill, tennis player.
• 9 April - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (died 1951).
• 12 August - Margaretta Eagar, nurse for the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and memoirist (died 1936).
• 25 August - Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (died 1899).
• 7 September - Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Royal Navy hydrographic surveyor, murdered by Irish Republican Army (died 1936).
• 26 September - Caesar Litton Falkiner, Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer and historian (died 1908).
• 24 November - Frederick Thomas Trouton, physicist responsible for Trouton's Rule (died 1922).

Full date unknown

• F Elrington Ball, author and legal historian (died 1928).
• John Mahony, Kerry hurler (died 1943).

Deaths

• 1 January - Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at Little Inkerman (born 1806).
• 16 February - Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (born 1822).
• 21 February - Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action (born 1826).
• 6 May - Robert Arbuthnot, British military officer (born 1773).
• 7 July - William Mulready, painter (born 1786).
• 8 July - Francis Kenrick, headed the Diocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore (born 1796).
• 24 July - Thomas Arthur Bellew, landowner and politician (born 1820).
• 17 October - John Dunlay, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1831).
• 10 December - James FitzGibbon, British soldier and hero of the War of 1812 (born 1782).
• 10 December - Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of New York National Academy of Design (born 1797).

References

1. "The riot of Tuesday the 10th". The Tablet: 12. 21 March 1863.
2. Nolan, Daniel J. (2011). Clippers: the ships that shaped the world. Bray: Malbay Publishing. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-908726-00-1.
3. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., ed. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 377.