1841 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1841 in Ireland
Events
- 6 June â 1841 census of Ireland: the first thorough census is completed and the population of Ireland is calculated to be just under 8.2 million.[1]
- 1 November â Daniel O'Connell is elected as the first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin in centuries.[2]
- 3 November â foundation stone for Saint Malachy's Church, Belfast is laid (completed in 1844).
- Ennis Friary refounded by Franciscans.
- The Cork Examiner newspaper is founded by John Francis Maguire in support of the Catholic emancipation and tenant rights work of Daniel O'Connell.[3]
- Ulster Canal completed.[4]
- Anthony Trollope moves to Ireland as an official of the General Post Office, initially settling in Banagher.[5]
Arts and literature
- Charles Lever's novel Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon is published in Dublin.
Births
- 12 February â Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (died 1926).
- 30 April â Charles Cooper Penrose-Fitzgerald, admiral in the Royal Navy (died 1921).
- 31 August â Patrick Egan, treasurer of the Irish Land League, fled to the United States, United States Minister to Chile (died 1919).
- 10 September â Max Arthur Macauliffe, British administrator, scholar and author (died 1913).
- 31 October â Abraham Dowdney, United States Representative from New York and officer in the Union army in the American Civil War (died 1886).
- 5 December â Marcus Daly, businessman in America (died 1900).
- 22 December â Thomas McCarthy Fennell, Fenian political prisoner transported to Western Australia (died 1914).
- Full date unknown
- Patrick Buckley, soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge in New Zealand (died 1896).
- Rosa Mulholland, novelist, short-story writer and poet (died 1921).
- Charles Anderson Read, journalist, novelist and anthologist (died 1878).
Deaths
- 7 January â James Arthur O'Connor, painter (born 1792).
- 17 March â Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager (born 1797).
- 18 April â Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, politician and statesman (born 1774).
- 21 July â Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, Royal Navy captain (born 1794).
- 24 August â Thomas Hopkirk, botanist (born 1785 in Scotland).
- 11 November â Catherine McAuley, nun (born 1778).