1857 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 6 References

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• April - General election.^[1]

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• 7 February - Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (d.1952).
• 11 March - Tom Clarke, nationalist, rebel and organiser of the Easter Rising, executed (d.1916).
• 19 April - Patrick Stone, Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (d.1942).
• 20 April - Thomas Myles, surgeon, Home Ruler, involved in importation of arms for the Irish Volunteers in 1914 (d.1937).
• 19 May - William Morgan Jellett, Irish Unionist MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom (d.1936).
• 1 August - Alan Joseph Adamson, politician in Canada (d.1928).
• 22 August - William Dowler Morris, mayor of Ottawa (d.1931).
• 1 November - W. H. Grattan Flood, musicologist and historian (d.1928).

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• Margaret Pearse, Fianna Fáil politician, mother of Patrick Pearse and Willie Pearse (d.1932).
• Sir Henry Robinson, 1st Baronet, civil servant (d.1927).

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• 29 January - John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea (b.1830).
• 3 March - William Brown, creator and first admiral of the Argentine Navy (b.1777).
• 9 April - Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (b.1830).
• 11 July - John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa (b.1811).
• 10 August - John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (b.1780).
• 19 September - John Purcell, soldier, receipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India, later killed in action (b.1814).
• 23 September - John Nicholson, military hero in India (b.1822).
• 17 December - Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale (b.1774).

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• Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (b.1797).

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