1816 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1816 in Ireland.

Events

• The Year Without a Summer – famine and typhoid kill 65,000 people by 1819.[1]
• January – Belfast Savings Bank opens for business.[2]
• 30 January – wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville (military transport ships) off the coast of Ireland in a gale with the loss of over 500 persons.[3]
• 17 March – Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.[4]
• May – the Ha'penny Bridge is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.[5]
• 18 May – the National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded.[6]
• June – St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland.[7]
• 29–30 October – Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in County Louth.[8]
• Templemore Market House is built in County Tipperary.[9]

Births

• 6 February – John Joseph Lynch, Bishop of Toronto (died 1888).
• 1 March – Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton (died 1898).
• 14 March – Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (died 1897).
• 8 April – Frederick William Burton, painter (died 1900).
• 12 April – Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (died 1903).
• 31 July – Trevor Chute, British Army officer (died 1886).
• 17 September – John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada (died 1900).
• 30 October – Richard Quain, physician (died 1898).

  Full date unknown

  • John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there (died 1906).
  • John O'Mahony, a founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood (died 1877).

Deaths

• 24 April – James Orr, rhyming weaver poet (born 1770).
• 3 May – James McHenry, signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, third United States Secretary of War (born 1753).
• 7 July – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman (born 1751).

  Full date unknown

  • Robert Fagan, painter, diplomat and archaeologist (b. c1761).

References

1. Hugh, Fenning (1999). Typhus Epidemic in Ireland, 1817-1819: Priests, Ministers, Doctors. Collectanea Hibernica. pp. 117–152. ISBN 0-385-40818-8.
2. Pilson, James Adair (1846). History of the Rise and Progress of Belfast: And Annals of the County Antrim. Belfast: John Mullen.
3. Farrell, Daniel (30 January 2020). "Remembering the Sea Horse lost off Tramore | 30th January 1816". Coast Monkey. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
4. O'Donovan Rossa Bridge at Structurae
5. Carty, Ed (19 May 2016). "Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge celebrates 200th birthday". The Irish News. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
6. O'Day, Alan; Fleming, Neil (2005). Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800. NY: USA: Routledge. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-582-08102-4.
7. "History". The Parish Church of St George, Belfast. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
8. Dooley, Terence (2007). The Murders at Wildgoose Lodge. Four Courts Press. ISBN 978-1-84682-085-4.
9. "Templemore Town Hall, Main Street, Main Street, KILTILLANE, Templemore, Tipperary North". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 6 July 2020.