1852 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1852 in Ireland.
Events
- 5 January – the troopship HMS Birkenhead boards British Army recruits at Queenstown. It has insufficient lifeboats.
- 26 February – 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 – 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.
Arts and literature
- Edmund Falconer produces his first collection of poems Man’s Mission: A Pilgrimage to Glory’s Goal[4] whilst working as a jobbing actor.
Sport
- Curragh golf course is laid out, the first in Ireland.[5]
- Leinster Cricket Club is founded in Rathgar.[6]
Births
- 25 January – Nevill Coghill, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Isandhlwana, South Africa (died 1879).
- 28 January – Louis Brennan, inventor (died 1932).
- 2 February – Lawrence E. McGann, Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois (died 1928).
- 24 February – George Moore, novelist, poet, art critic and dramatist (died 1933).
- 29 February – Frank Gavan Duffy, fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (died 1936).
- 15 March – Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist and folklorist (died 1932).
- 17 March – Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest, author and political activist (died 1913).
- 27 March – Jim Connell, political activist, writer of The Red Flag (died 1929).
- 9 April (bapt.) – Laurence Ginnell, nationalist, lawyer and politician, member of 1st Dáil (died 1923).
- 28 July – Barton McGuckin, tenor singer (died 1913).
- 30 September – Charles Villiers Stanford, composer (died 1924).
- 2 October – William O'Brien, nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher and author (died 1928).
Deaths
- 25 February – Thomas Moore, poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer (born 1779).
- 25 April – Arthur O'Connor, United Irishman and later general in Napoleon's army (born 1763).
- 8 May – Charles Rowan, joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police (b. c1782).
- 14 September – 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).
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References
- Patterson, T. G. (1975). "Railways in County Armagh, 1841–1957". Harvest Home: The Last Sheaf. Armagh County Museum. pp. 104–112. ISBN 0950478008. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
- Pelle, Kimberley D. "Appendix D: Fairs Not Included". In Findling, John E. (ed.). Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 414–422. ISBN 9780786434169.
- Kinealy, Christine (1994). This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845–1852. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. pp. xvi–ii. ISBN 0-7171-4011-3.
- Samuel Halkett; John Laing (1999). A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain: Including the Works of Foreigners Written In, Or Translated Into the English Language. Adegi Graphics LLC. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-543-91060-8.
- "Welcome to The Curragh Golf Club". The Curragh Golf Club. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
- Siggins, Gerard (2005). Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792–2005. Stroud: Nonsuch Publishing Ltd. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-84588-512-0.
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