1852 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1852 in Ireland.
Events
- 5 January â the troopship HMS Birkenhead boards British Army recruits at Queenstown. It has insufficient lifeboats.
- 26 February â the Birkenhead founders off the coast of South Africa. The soldiers stand to attention while women and children are placed in the lifeboats.
- 10 June
- The 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry on the Dublin-Belfast railway line is opened (construction began in 1849).[1]
- The Irish Industrial Exhibition is opened in Cork.[2]
- 1 October â Patent Law Amendment Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, merging the English, Scottish and Irish patent systems.
- Eglington Pauper Lunatic Asylum opened in Cork.
- End of the Great Famine.[3] In the period it has lasted since 1845, one million people have emigrated from Ireland. The Irish now make up a quarter of the population of Liverpool, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore; and a half of Toronto.
- Tenant farmer Michael O'Regan emigrates from County Tipperary to London. He will become paternal great-grandfather to Ronald Reagan, President of the United States.
- Samuel Kelly establishes his coal merchant's business as Samuel Kelly Coal Merchant on the Coal Quay, Belfast.[4]
Arts and literature
- Edmund Falconer produces his first collection of poems Manâs Mission: A Pilgrimage to Gloryâs Goal[5] whilst working as a jobbing actor.
Sport
- Curragh golf course is laid out, the first in Ireland.[6]
- Leinster Cricket Club is founded in Rathgar.[7]
Births
- 25 January â Nevill Coghill, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Isandhlwana, South Africa (died 1879).
- 28 January â Louis Brennan, inventor (died 1932).
- 2 February â Lawrence E. McGann, Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois (died 1928).
- 24 February â George Moore, novelist, poet, art critic and dramatist (died 1933).
- 29 February â Frank Gavan Duffy, fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (died 1936).
- 15 March â Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist and folklorist (died 1932).
- 17 March â Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest, author and political activist (died 1913).
- 27 March â Jim Connell, political activist, writer of The Red Flag (died 1929).
- 9 April (bapt.) â Laurence Ginnell, nationalist, lawyer and politician, member of 1st Dáil (died 1923).
- 28 July â Barton McGuckin, tenor singer (died 1913).
- 30 September â Charles Villiers Stanford, composer (died 1924).
- 2 October â William O'Brien, nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher and author (died 1928).
Deaths
- 25 February â Thomas Moore, poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer (born 1779).
- 25 April â Arthur O'Connor, United Irishman and later general in Napoleon's army (born 1763).
- 8 May â Charles Rowan, joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police (b. c1782).
- 14 September â Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman (born 1769).
- Full date unknown
- Edward Bransfield, master in the Royal Navy (born 1785).
- William Thompson, naturalist (born 1805).
- Elliot Warburton, travel writer and novelist (born 1810).