1836 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1836 in Ireland.
Events
- 30 January â the Intrinsic sinks off Kilkee with the loss of all fourteen on board.[1][2]
- February â foundation of the Ulster Bank in Belfast.
- 4 April â Daniel O'Connell gives a speech on "Justice for Ireland".
- 4 May â the Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, is founded in New York City.
- 23 May â Irish Constabulary Act provides central organisation for the police in Ireland;[3] an Act of 4 July provides for formation of a Dublin Police Office.
- 4 June â The Sligo Champion newspaper is first published.[4]
- August â following one of the coldest summers in over fifty years there is widespread failure of the potato crop.
- 19 September â first burial at Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold's Cross, Dublin, a commercial Protestant burial ground.[5]
- End of Tithe War.
- Foundation of the Royal Bank of Ireland, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks.
- Foundation of the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
- Irish emigration to Montevideo, Uruguay, peaks.[6][7]
Arts and literature
- Francis Sylvester Mahony's light verse The Reliques of Father Prout published.
Births
- 17 January â William MacCormac, surgeon (died 1901).
- 16 February â Robert Halpin, master mariner (died 1894).
- May â Thomas Lane, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (died 1889).
- 9 June â Henry Arthur McArdle, painter in the United States (died 1908).
- 27 June â Walter Moxon, prominent physician (died 1886).
- 10 October â Dalton McCarthy, lawyer and politician in Canada (died 1898).
- Lot Flannery, sculptor in the United States (died 1922).
Deaths
- 31 March â Edward Southwell Ruthven, Repealer politician and member of the United Kingdom Parliament (b. c. 1772)
- 8 August â James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, politician (born 1755).
- 21 August â William Cusac Smith, Baronet, judge (born 1766)