1843 in Ireland

Events from the year 1843 in Ireland.

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January â Daniel O'Connell proclaims 1843 as the "Repeal Year".^[1]
31 January â Queen's Bridge in Belfast opens.^[2]
21 February â repeal (of the Act of Union) debate in Dublin Corporation.^[1]
17 March â earthquake in the Irish Sea.^[3]
11 June
- Series of monster meetings to agitate for repeal begins at Tuam.^[1]
- O'Connell's "Mallow defiance".^[1]
15 August â repeal meeting at Tara.^[1]
17 August â Loreto Abbey, Dalkey opened as a girls' boarding and day school by the Sisters of Loreto.
18 August â Dalkey Atmospheric Railway opens unofficially.
7 October â O'Connell gives in to government prohibition of Clontarf meeting planned for the next day. However, he is charged with conspiracy a few days later.^[1]
November â Devon Commission appointed to research the problems with land leases.^[1]
Work starts on the building of Crumlin Road Prison in Belfast.
George Cannock and Andrew White establish the Dublin business that becomes Arnotts department store.

Charles Lever's novel Arthur O'Leary: His wanderings and ponderings in many lands is published serially in Dublin University Magazine and Tom Burke of Ours begins serial publication in Dublin.

11 January â C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia (died 1902).
3 May â Edward Dowden, critic and poet (died 1913).
14 August â Thomas Workman, entomologist and arachnologist (died 1900).
6 November â William James Craig, Shakespearean scholar (died 1906).
24 November â Richard Croker, politician in America and a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall (died 1922).
21 December â Thomas Bracken, poet (died 1898 in New Zealand).
25 December
- Albert Cashier, born Jennie Hodgers, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, lived as a man (died 1915 in the United States).
- George Fisher, Mayor of Wellington (died 1905 in New Zealand).
28 December â George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian (died 1898).
Full date unknown â Joanna Hiffernan, artists' model (died after 1903).

19 February â Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor (born 1796).
11 May â William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey, politician and statesman (born 1783).^[4]
10 August â Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (born 1775).
16 November â Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (born 1773).
21 December â Edward Bunting, musician (born 1773).