1861 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1861 in Ireland.
Events
- 8â10 April â John George Adair of Glenveagh Castle evicts tenants at Derryveagh in County Donegal.[1][2]
- 18 June â completion and official inauguration of the Wellington Monument, Dublin, in Phoenix Park, built to the design of Sir Robert Smirke (begun 1817).[1]
- 21â30 August â Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, visit Ireland.[1] They visit the Curragh Camp where Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, serving with the Grenadier Guards, has taken the actress Nellie Clifden as his first lover.[3]
- 24 August â Mater Misericordiae Hospital is opened in Dublin by the Sisters of Mercy (architect: John Bourke).[1]
- 17 September â the SS Great Eastern, with a badly damaged rudder, anchors in Cork Harbour for temporary repairs.[4]
- Reconstruction of Fort Camden as part of the Cork Harbour defences begins.
- Irish Famine (1861)
Arts and literature
- July â Sheridan Le Fanu becomes editor and proprietor of the Dublin University Magazine.[5] From October he begins serialization of his novel The House by the Churchyard in it.
Sport
- Malahide Cricket Club founded.
Births
- 23 January â Katharine Tynan, novelist and poet (died 1931).
- 6 February â George Tyrrell, expelled Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (died 1909).
- 19 March â Joseph MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (died 1945).[6]
- 15 April â William Hoey Kearney Redmond, nationalist politician, barrister, brother of John Redmond, killed in Battle of Messines (died 1917).
- 21 June â Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer (died 1881).
- 16 October â J. B. Bury, historian, classical scholar and philologist (died 1927).
- 3 November â Thomas O'Brien Butler, composer (died 1915 in the sinking of RMS Lusitania).
- 5 November â Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet, cricketer (died 1948).
- Full date unknown
- Frank Duffy, labour leader in America (died 1955).
- Nathaniel Hill, artist (died 1934).
- Leonard Greenham Star Molloy, soldier, doctor, M.P. (died 1937)
Deaths
- 13 May â William Henry Fitton, geologist (born 1780).
- 19 May â Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools (born 1794).
- 27 June â Robert O'Hara Burke, explorer of Australia (born 1821).
- 11 August â Catherine Hayes, opera diva (born 1818).
- 10 December â John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer (born 1806).