1859 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1859 in Ireland.

Events

• 29 March – The Irish Times is first published, in Dublin.
• 28 April–18 May – United Kingdom general election in Ireland produces a Tory majority in Irish seats.
• 30 April – American ship Pomona carrying, mainly Irish, emigrants from Liverpool to New York, is wrecked on a sandbank at Ballyconigar, off Wexford, with 424 deaths and only 24 survivors.^[1]
• Evangelical Ulster Revival.^[2]
• John Sisk establishes his building construction business in Cork.^[3]

Births

• 3 January – Maurice Healy, lawyer, politician and MP (died 1923).
• 30 January – Tony Mullane, Major League Baseball player (died 1944).
• 1 February – Victor Herbert, composer, cellist and conductor (died 1924).
• 11 February – Barry Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore, nobleman and officer (died 1885).
• February – James Murray, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Elandsfontein, near Pretoria, South Africa (died 1942).
• 13 April – Daniel Gallery, politician in Canada (died 1920).
• 22 April – Ada Rehan, Shakespearean actress (died 1916 in the United States).
• 4 May – William Hamilton, cricketer (died 1914).
• 16 October – Daisy Bates, née Margaret Dwyer, anthropologist (died 1951 in Australia).

Full date unknown

• Francis Fitzpatrick, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 during an attack on Sekukuni's Town, South Africa (died 1933).

• Thomas Houghton, Anglican Clergyman and editor of the Gospel Magazine (died 1951).

• Edward Martyn, playwright and activist (died 1923).

• Justin Huntly McCarthy, politician and author (died 1936).

• Walter Osborne, painter (died 1903).

• Henry Jones Thaddeus, painter (died 1929).

Deaths

• 14 April – Lady Morgan, novelist (b. c1776).
• 3 November – George Forrest, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 at Delhi, India (born 1800).
• 29 April – Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer (born 1793).

Full date unknown

• Peter McManus, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross.

See also

• 1859 in Scotland
• 1859 in Wales

Notes and References

1. News: The Wreck of the Pomona. Wexford Independent. 1. 1859-05-28.
2. Book: Miller, D. W.. 2005. Did Ulster Presbyterians have a devotional revolution?. Murphy. J. H.. Evangelicals and Catholics in Nineteenth Century Ireland. Dublin. Four Courts Press. 9781851829170. 52–4.
3. Web site: Sisk History Timeline. Sisk. 2012-07-17. 2012-03-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20120311173115/http://www.sisk150.com/timeline/. dead.