1863 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1863 in Ireland.
Events
- 2 March â the Ulster Railway, which began construction in 1839, reaches Clones.
- 10 March â riots in Cork, related to nationalist unrest.[1]
- 21 August â American clipper Anglo Saxon westbound is captured and burned by Confederate privateer Florida off Old Head of Kinsale.[2]
- 28 November â first edition of The Irish People.[3]
Arts and literature
- Belleek Pottery begins to produce Parian Ware.
- Sheridan Le Fanu publishes The House by the Churchyard.
- Ellen Bridget O'Connell publishes Derrynane Abbey in 1832, and other Poems.
Births
- 1 February â George Carew, 4th Baron Carew (died 1926).
- February â George J. Gaskin, "silver-voiced Irish tenor" (died 1920 in the United States)
- 11 March â May Guinness, painter (died 1955).
- 17 March â P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of San Francisco (died 1933).
- 31 March â Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician (died 1961).
- 2 April â Mabel Cahill, tennis player.
- 9 April â Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (died 1951).
- 12 August â Margaretta Eagar, nurse for the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and memoirist (died 1936).
- 25 August â Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (died 1899).
- 7 September â Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Royal Navy hydrographic surveyor, murdered by Irish Republican Army (died 1936).
- 26 September â Caesar Litton Falkiner, Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer and historian (died 1908).
- 24 November â Frederick Thomas Trouton, physicist responsible for Trouton's Rule (died 1922).
- Full date unknown â F. Elrington Ball, author and legal historian (died 1928).
Deaths
- 1 January â Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at Little Inkerman (born 1806).
- 16 February â Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (born 1822).
- 21 February â Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action (born 1826).
- 7 July â William Mulready, painter (born 1786).
- 8 July â Francis Kenrick, headed the Diocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore (born 1796).
- 24 July â Thomas Arthur Bellew, landowner and politician (born 1820).
- 17 October â John Dunlay, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1831).
- 10 December â James FitzGibbon, British soldier and hero of the War of 1812 (born 1782).
- 10 December â Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of New York National Academy of Design (born 1797).