1865 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1865 in Ireland.
Events
- 23 July â the SS Great Eastern sets out from Valentia Island on the first attempt to lay the transatlantic telegraph cable.[1]
- Methodist College Belfast founded by the church; it will open to pupils in 1868.
- Work begins on the building of the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial to Queen Victoria's late Prince Consort, Prince Albert.
Arts and literature
- 9 May â International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures opens in Dublin.
- 23 December â Gustavus Vaughan Brooke concludes a farewell season in Belfast, playing the title role in Richard III.
- Augustus Burke paints Connemara Girl.
Deaths
- 6 February â Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer (died 1939).
- 16 March â Patsy Donovan, Major League Baseball player and manager (died 1953 in the United States).[2]
- 17 March â Patrick Joseph Sullivan, mayor of Casper, Wyoming and Republican member of the United States Senate from Wyoming (died 1935 in the United States).
- 20 April â James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (died 1954).
- 4 May â Charles A. Callis, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1947 in the United States).
- 7 May â John MacBride, nationalist rebel and Easter Rising leader (executed 1916).
- 8 May â Charles FitzClarence, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 near Mafeking, South Africa (killed in action 1914).
- 10 June â Dermod O'Brien, painter (died 1945).
- 13 June â W. B. Yeats, poet and dramatist (died 1939).
- 18 June â Henry Allan, painter (died 1912).
- 24 June â Harry Plunket Greene, baritone (died 1936).
- 15 July â Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper and publishing magnate (died 1922)
- 16 July â 'George A. Birmingham' (Rev. James Owen Hannay), novelist (died 1950)
- 29 August â Thomas Kent, nationalist rebel (executed following a gunfight with the RIC 1916).
- 4 September â Alice Milligan, nationalist and poet (died 1953).
- 16 October â Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, British Army commander in World War I, later Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Field Marshal (died 1946).
- 12 November â Herbert Trench, poet (died 1923).
- Full date unknown
- Grace Rhys, née Little, novelist (died 1929).
- Robert Henry Woods, Irish Unionist MP (died 1938).