1843 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1843 in Ireland.

Events

• January – Daniel O'Connell proclaims 1843 as the "Repeal Year".[1]
• 31 January – Queen's Bridge in Belfast opens.[2]
• 21 February – repeal (of the Act of Union) debate in Dublin Corporation.[1]
• 17 March – earthquake in the Irish Sea.[3]
• 11 June
  • Series of monster meetings to agitate for repeal begins at Tuam.[1]
  • O'Connell's "Mallow defiance".[1]
• 15 August – repeal meeting at Tara.[1]
• 17 August – Loreto Abbey, Dalkey opened as a girls' boarding and day school by the Sisters of Loreto.
• 18 August – Dalkey Atmospheric Railway opens unofficially.
• 7 October – O'Connell gives in to government prohibition of Clontarf meeting planned for the next day. However, he is charged with conspiracy a few days later.[1]
• November – Devon Commission appointed to research the problems with land leases.[1]
• Work starts on the building of Crumlin Road Prison in Belfast.
• George Cannock and Andrew White establish the Dublin business that becomes Arnotts department store.

Arts and literature

• Charles Lever's novel Arthur O'Leary: His wanderings and ponderings in many lands is published serially in Dublin University Magazine and Tom Burke of Ours begins serial publication in Dublin.

Births

• 11 January – C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia (died 1902).
• 3 May – Edward Dowden, critic and poet (died 1913).
• 14 August – Thomas Workman, entomologist and arachnologist (died 1900).
• 6 November – William James Craig, Shakespearean scholar (died 1906).
• 24 November – Richard Croker, politician in America and a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall (died 1922).
• 21 December – Thomas Bracken, poet (died 1898 in New Zealand).
• 25 December – Albert Cashier, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, physically female, but lived as a man (died 1915).
• 28 December – George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian (died 1898).

  Full date unknown

  • George Fisher, Mayor of Wellington (died 1905 in New Zealand).
  • Joanna Hiffernan, artists' model.
  • James McParland, Pinkerton detective agent (died 1919 in the United States).

Deaths

• 19 February – Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor (born 1796).
• 11 May – William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey, politician and statesman (born 1783).[4]
• 10 August – Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (born 1775).
• 16 November – Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (born 1773).
• 21 December – Edward Bunting, musician (born 1773).

References

1. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 375.
2. Graham, Joe (2003). "Belfast History Through The Years". Retrieved 2011-03-30.
3. "Notes on individual earthquakes". British Geological Survey. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
4. "Clare People: William Vesey-FitzGerald". Archived from the original on 2007-04-08. Retrieved 2007-04-13.