1827 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1827 in Ireland.
Events
- 19â25 April â public theological debates in Dublin between Revs. R. T. P. Pope (Protestant) and Thomas Maguire (Roman Catholic).[1]
- 6 SeptemberâOctober â Ordnance Survey staff survey a Lough Foyle baseline for their survey of Ireland.[2]
- 24 September (Feast of Our Lady of Mercy) â Catherine McAuley opens an institution for destitute women and orphans and a school for the poor in Dublin.[3]
- The British Army establishes Beggars Bush Barracks.
- Clonmel and Multyfarnham Friaries are re-established.
- Amhlaoibh à Súilleabháin begins his diary, later published as CÃn Lae Amhlaoibh.[4]
Arts and literature
- Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes her romantic novel with political overtones, The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys, in London.
Births
- January â Bernard Diamond, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Bolandshahr, India (died 1892).
- 5 February â Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia (died 1889).
- 27 April â Mary Ward, scientist (died 1869).
- 5 May â Thomas Francis Hendricken, first Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island (died 1886).
- 29 May â Timothy Daniel Sullivan, journalist, politician and poet, writer of the Irish national hymn God Save Ireland (died 1914).
- 3 September â John Drew, actor in the United States (died 1862).
- 10 December â Eugene O'Keefe, businessman and philanthropist in Canada (died 1913).
- Full date unknown
- Thomas Farrell, sculptor (died 1900).
- James Owens, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1901).
Deaths
- 14 November â Thomas Addis Emmet, lawyer and politician, member of United Irishmen (born 1764).