1822 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1822 in Ireland.
Events
- 22 April â The Albion, a Black Ball Line trans-Atlantic packet, is driven ashore at Old Head of Kinsale with the loss of 46 of the 54 aboard.[1][2]
- 7 June â The Constitution; or, Cork Morning Post begins publication.
- 19 July â Percy Jocelyn, Anglican Bishop of Clogher, is caught in a compromising position with a young Grenadier Guardsman at a public house in London. He breaks bail and flees England. In October, an Irish ecclesiastical court deprives him of office.[3]
- 21 September â HMS Confiance, a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop of 1813, is wrecked between Mizen Head and Three Castles Head near Crookhaven with the loss of all 100 aboard.[4]
- Public gas lighting in Belfast.[5]
- Mary Leadbeater's Cottage Biography, being a Collection of Lives of the Irish Peasantry is published.
Births
- 16 February â James Thomson, engineer and physicist (died 1892).
- 21 February â Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three times Chief Secretary for Ireland, Viceroy of India (assassinated 1872 in the Andaman Islands).
- 31 August â Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1896).
- September â Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (died 1863).
- 2 October â James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (died 1900).
- 11 October â Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (died 1907).
- November â John Divane, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1888).
- 4 December â Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (died 1904).
- 11 December â John Nicholson, military hero in India (died 1857).
- Full date unknown
- James Byrne, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (died 1872).
- Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (died 1903).
- Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (died 1876).
Deaths
- 15 February â Pierce Butler, soldier, planter, statesman, one of United States' Founding Fathers, represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate (born 1744).
- 25 March â Robert Blake, dentist, first State Dentist of Dublin (born 1772).
- 12 August â Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna (born 1769).
- John Bowden, ecclesiastical architect.