1842 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1842 in Ireland.
Events
- 15 October â The Nation newspaper is founded in Dublin.[1]
Births
- 6 February â Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile (died 1896).
- 10 February â Agnes Mary Clerke, astronomer and writer (died 1907).[2]
- 9 May â William Hone, cricketer (died 1919).
- 23 August â Osborne Reynolds, engineer and prominent innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics (died 1912).
- 3 September â John Devoy, Fenian organiser and exile (died 1928 in the United States).
Deaths
- 25 March â William Beatty, ship's surgeon on HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar (born 1773).
- 11 April â John England, first Catholic Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina (born 1786).
- 8 June â Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, politician. (born 1776).
- 12 August â William Corbet, member of the United Irishmen, soldier, Commander-in-Chief to French forces in Greece (born 1779).
- 21 August â William Maginn, journalist and writer (born 1794).
- 30 August â John Banim, dramatist and playwright (born 1798).
- 28 September â Sir Michael O'Loghlen, 1st Baronet, judge, politician and Attorney-General for Ireland (born 1789).
- 4 October â Lowry Cole, soldier, politician and MP for Enniskillen from 1797 to 1800, Governor of Mauritius and Cape Colony (born 1772).