1853 in Ireland
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[edit] Events
- Great Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin.[1]
[edit] Births
- 30 January - Leland Hone, cricketer (d.1896).
- 6 February - Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast (d.1927).
- 7 February - Egerton Bushe Coghill, painter (d.1921).
- 30 March - Frank O'Meara, artist (d.1888).
- March - John Doogan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Laing's Nek, South Africa (d.1940).
- 10 April - Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (d.1907).
- 3 July - Aloysius O'Kelly, painter (d. c1941).
- July - Thomas Brennan, a founder and joint first secretary of the Irish National Land League (d.1912).
[edit] Deaths
- 14 April - Robert Baldwin Sullivan, lawyer, judge, and politician in Canada, second Mayor of Toronto (b.1802).
- 21 September - Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 to 1853 (b.1820).
- 28 October - Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician (b.1773)[2].
