1819 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1819 in Ireland.
Events
- 9 April â 7 June: Select Committee of the House of Commons inquires into the state of disease and condition of the poor in Ireland.[1] Typhus epidemic continues.
- 3 May â Henry Grattan petitions the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in favour of Catholic emancipation.[1]
- 26 June â first detachment of John Devereux's Irish Legion sets sail from Liverpool in the Charlotte Gambier to aid Simón BolÃvar in his campaign to liberate New Granada in South America.[1]
- 13/14 July â uxoricide of Ellen Scanlan (née Hanley, the "Colleen Bawn") and dumping of her body in the River Shannon.[1]
- c. October â disturbances by supporters of Ribbonism.[1]
Arts and literature
Births
- January â William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand (died 1903).
- 31 January â William Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, soldier and politician (died 1887).
- 1 March â Mother Vincent Whitty, nun (died 1892).
- 30 March â Bartholomew Woodlock, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh (died 1902).
- 31 March â Edward Selby Smyth, British General, commanded Militia of Canada from 1874 to 1880 (died 1896).
- 1 May â Jimmy Corcoran, emigrant to Manhattan (died 1900).
- 2 July â Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, barrister and writer (died 1880).
- 5 July â Hedges Eyre Chatterton, Conservative Party MP and Vice-Chancellor of Ireland (died 1910).
- 8 July â Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy officer, explorer in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (died 1907).
- 25 July â John J. Conroy, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany (New York) (died 1895).
- 13 August â George Stokes, mathematician known for the creation of the Navier-Stokes equation (died 1903).
- 10 September â Joseph M. Scriven, poet, hymnodist and philanthropist (died 1886).
- 25 September â George Salmon, mathematician and theologian (died 1904).
- 28 December â Arthur Hunter Palmer, politician in Australia (died 1898).
- Nicholas Joseph Crowley, portrait painter (died 1857).
- Edwin Hayes, English-born marine watercolourist (died 1904).
- Henry Wellesly McCann, farmer and politician in Canada.
- Joseph Neale McKenna, banker and politician (died 1906).
Deaths
- 26 September â James Towers English, mercenary (born 1782).
- 27 November â Gustavus Conyngham, privateer (born c.1744/45).
- 10 December â Euseby Cleaver, Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland) (born 1746).
- Thomas Meredith, clergyman and mathematician (born 1777).
- James O'Hara, military officer and businessman in the United States (born c.1752).