1851 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1851 in Ireland.
Events
- 30 March â the United Kingdom Census shows that, as part of the legacy of the Great Famine, the population of Ireland has fallen to 6,575,000 â a drop of 1,600,000 in ten years.[1][2] This is the first census to note use of the Irish language.[3]
- 1 August â Midland Great Western Railway extended from Mullingar to Galway.[3]
- 7 August â Poor Relief (Ireland) Act provides for the establishment of dispensaries.[3]
- Construction of MacNeill's Egyptian Arch, a railway bridge near Newry on the Dublin-Belfast railway line is completed.
- Tillie and Henderson open their first shirt factory in Derry.
Undated
- Ancestors of Presidents of the United States Barack Obama and Joe Biden migrate from Ireland to the U.S.[4]
- Jacob's brand of biscuits, bars and coffee is founded; their first biscuit is possibly Goldgrain.
Births
- 8 January â William McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim, peer (died 1918).
- 14 March â Paddy Ryan, boxer (died 1900).
- 17 March â Ted Sullivan, Major League Baseball player and manager (died 1929 in the United States).
- 21 March â Henry Prittie, 4th Baron Dunalley, peer and Lord Lieutenant of County Tipperary 1905â1922 (died 1927).
- 4 April â James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, lawyer, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, first Chairman of Seanad Ãireann (died 1931).
- 22 May â William Moxley, representative from Illinois's 6th congressional district (died 1938 in the United states).
- 4 September â John Dillon, land reform agitator, Irish Home Rule activist, nationalist politician, MP and last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (died 1927).
- 3 December â George Noble Plunkett, nationalist, politician, museum curator (died 1948).
Deaths
- 23 May â Richard Lalor Sheil, politician, writer and orator (born 1791).
- 1 September â Anne Devlin, Irish republican and housekeeper to Robert Emmet (born 1780).