1846 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Potato blight affects the country putting farmers in distress.
• 13 March - Ballinglass Incident: eviction of 300 tenants at the village of Ballinglass during the Irish Potato famine.
• Crumlin Road (HM Prison) in Belfast is opened with the arrival of the first inmates, who were forced to walk from Carrickfergus Prison in chains.

[edit] Births

• 25 March - Michael Davitt, republican, nationalist agarian agitator, social campaigner, labour leader and Irish National Land League founder (d.1906).
• 22 July - Alfred Perceval Graves, writer (d.1931).
• 13 August - Otto Jaffe, twice elected as Irish Unionist Party Lord Mayor of Belfast (d.1929).
• 10 September - John F. Finerty, U.S. Representative from Illinois (d.1908).
• 18 September - Standish James O'Grady, author, journalist, historian (d.1928).
• 23 August - Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, politician and barrister (d.1921).
• 9 October - Frank Hugh O'Donnell, writer and nationalist politician (d.1916).

[edit] Full date unknown

• John O'Connor Power, Irish Nationalist politician and MP (d.1919).

[edit] Deaths

• George Darley, poet, novelist and critic (b.1795).