1856 in Ireland
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- M. H. Gill, printer to Dublin University, purchases the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, renaming it McGlashan & Gill, the predecessor of Gill & MacmillanGill & MacmillanGill & Macmillan is a publisher based in Park West, Dublin, Ireland, and is a publisher of nonfiction and educational books in Ireland. It is a member of CLE, the Irish Book Publishers' Association.-History:...
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Births
- 14 February - Frank HarrisFrank HarrisFrank Harris was a Irish-born, naturalized-American author, editor, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day...
, author, editor, journalist and publisher (d.19311931 in Ireland-Events:*12 February - Sixteen members of the Ennis Dalcassian Gaelic Athletic Association club are expelled for attending the Ennis-Nenagh rugby match....
). - 20 March - John LaveryJohn LaverySir John Lavery was an Irish painter best known for his portraits.Belfast-born John Lavery attended the Haldane Academy, in Glasgow, in the 1870s and the Académie Julian in Paris in the early 1880s. He returned to Glasgow and was associated with the Glasgow School...
, artist (d.19411941 in Northern Ireland-Events:*15 April - The Belfast blitz 1,000 people are killed in bombing raids on Belfast. 71 fire men with 13 fire tenders from Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, and Dún Laoghaire crossed the Irish border to assist their Belfast colleagues....
). - 2 May - Matt TalbotMatt TalbotThe Venerable Matt Talbot was an Irish ascetic who is revered by many Catholics for his piety, charity and mortification of the flesh....
, manual labourer and asceticAsceticismAsceticism describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals...
(d.19251925 in Ireland-Events:*February 11 - In the Dáil a resolution is passed making it illegal for any citizen to secure a divorce with the right to re-marry in the State....
). - 26 July - George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) (d.19501950 in Ireland-Events:* 12 March - 83 people die when a plane carrying rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in Wales.* 12 May - Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.* 1 July -- Sir Gilbert...
). - 18 August - Walter Richard Pollock HamiltonWalter Richard Pollock HamiltonWalter Richard Pollock Hamilton VC was born in Inistioge, County Kilkenny and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He is featured in M. M...
, soldier, recipient of the Victoria CrossVictoria CrossThe Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
for gallantry in 1879 at Futtehabad, AfghanistanAfghanistanAfghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
(d.18791879 in Ireland-Events:*20 April - First of many "monster meetings" of tenant farmers held in Irishtown near Claremorris, County Mayo.*8 June - Charles Stewart Parnell at Westport, County Mayo meeting.*16 August - Land League of Mayo founded at Castlebar....
). - 17 November - Thomas TaggartThomas TaggartThomas Taggart was a U.S. political figure, serving as mayor of Indianapolis and influential in state and national politics.-Early life and family:...
, politician in the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
(d.19291929 in Ireland-Events:*January 17 - All cats from abroad, except Great Britain, are to be kept in quarantine for a period of six months to avoid rabies.*February 8 - A Belfast court sentences Fianna Fáil leader, Éamon de Valera, to one month in jail for illegally entering County Armagh.*February 20 -...
). - 28 November - Patrick O'Donnell, CardinalCardinal (Catholicism)A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...
, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (d.19271927 in Ireland-Events:*April 6 - Dan Breen proposes a Bill in the Dáil that Article 17 of the Irish Free State Constitution be removed. President W. T. Cosgrave opposes the removal of the Oath of Allegiance....
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Deaths
- 27 January - John LalorJohn Lalor (journalist)John Lalor was an Irish journalist and author.Lalor, son of John Lalor, a Roman Catholic merchant, was born at Dublin in 1814, and educated at a Roman Catholic school at Carlow and at Clongowes College. On 6 June 1831 he entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1837...
, journalist and author (b.18141814 in Ireland-Events:*Apprentice Boys of Derry organisation is formed, although the Siege of Derry had been celebrated from the 17th century.-Births:*10 January - Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic .*9 May - John Brougham, actor and dramatist ....
). - 4 February - William Hare, 2nd Earl of ListowelWilliam Hare, 2nd Earl of ListowelWilliam Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel KP , known as Viscount Ennismore from 1827 to 1837, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Member of Parliament....
, peer and MPMember of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
(b.18011801 in Ireland-Events:* January 1 - Legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....
). - 18 March - Henry Pottinger, soldier and colonial administrator, first Governor of Hong KongGovernor of Hong KongThe Governor of Hong Kong was the head of the government of Hong Kong during British rule from 1843 to 1997. The governor's roles were defined in the Hong Kong Letters Patent and Royal Instructions...
(b.17891789 in Ireland-Births:*26 March – Edward Ffrench Bromhead, mathematician .*24 September – Richard Henry Wilde, lawyer and Congressman in USA .*3 October – Henry Pottinger, soldier and colonial administrator, first Governor of Hong Kong ....
). - 31 May - Yankee SullivanYankee SullivanYankee Sullivan also known as Frank Murray and James Sullivan was a bare knuckle fighter and boxer. He was a Champion of Prizefighting from 1851 to October 12, 1853...
, bare knuckle fighter and boxer (b.18111811 in Ireland-Births:*21 January - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, politician and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland .*10 March - Yankee Sullivan, bare knuckle fighter and boxer .*11 November - John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa ....
). - 2 June - Robert Carew, 1st Baron CarewRobert Carew, 1st Baron CarewRobert Shapland Carew, 1st Baron Carew KP was an Irish Whig Party politician and landowner.He was born in Dublin, the son of Robert Shapland Carew, also an MP and landowner, and his wife Anne . He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church Oxford...
, politician (b.17871787 in Ireland-Births:*19 January - Mary Aikenhead, founder of the Sisters of Charity .*9 March - Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew, politician .-Full date unknown:*Edward Eagar, lawyer and criminal transported to Australia, politician ....
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- Theobald MathewTheobald Mathew (temperance reformer)Theobald Mathew , an Irish teetotalist reformer, popularly known as Father Mathew was born at Thomastown, near Golden, County Tipperary, on October 10, 1790....
, aka Father Mathew, temperanceTemperance movementA temperance movement is a social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements may criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence , or pressure the government to enact anti-alcohol legislation or complete prohibition of alcohol.-Temperance movement by...
reformer (b.17901790 in Ireland-Events:*Armagh Observatory founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh.-Births:*June - Arthur Jacob, Ophthalmologist .*Theobald Mathew, aka Father Mathew, temperance reformer .-Deaths:...
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