1828 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

• In the election in County Clare, Daniel O'Connell wins the seat, with the Catholic Association^[1].
• Belfast Botanic Gardens opens as the private Royal Belfast Botanical Gardens.

[edit] Births

• 1 January - Richard Phelan, fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d.1904).
• 28 January - William Gorman Wills, dramatist and painter (d.1891).
• 21 March - William Davis Ardagh, lawyer, judge and politician in Canada (d.1893).
• March - Patrick Cleburne, major general in Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Franklin (d.1864).
• 23 April - Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer (d.1892).
• 9 May - Charles Kickham, Irish revolutionary, novelist, poet, journalist
• 27 June - Cornelius Coughlan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (d.1915).
• 27 June - Bryan O'Loghlen, politician in Australia, 13th Premier of Victoria (d.1905).
• 26 August - William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin (d.1897).
• 27 November - Samuel Mullen, bookseller (d.1890).
• 31 December - Fitz James O'Brien, author (d.1862).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Thomas Newenham Deane, architect (d.1899).
• Canon James Goodman, Irish music collector (d.1896).
• John Holmes, surveyor and politician in Ontario (d.1879).
• Joshua Spencer Thompson, Liberal-Conservative politician in Canada (d.1880).
• John Tuigg, third Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d.1889).

[edit] Deaths

• 9 January - Alexander Arbuthnot, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (b.1768).
• 23 August - John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, politician and Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer (b.1740).

[edit] References