1860 in Ireland

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

[edit] Events

• Deasy's Land Act^[1], intended to reform tenants' rights.
• Construction began on St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast.

[edit] Births

• 1 January - John Cassidy, sculptor and painter (d.1939).
• 17 January - Douglas Hyde, member of the Seanad in 1922 and 1938; first President of Ireland and Gaelic scholar (d.1949).
• 26 April - Gerald Carew, 5th Baron Carew (d.1927)^[2].
• 15 June - Robert Carew, 3rd Baron Carew (d.1923)^[3].
• 25 June - John Danaher, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 near Pretoria, South Africa (d.1919).
• 8 December - Amanda McKittrick Ros, novelist and poet (d.1939).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Patrick S. Dinneen, lexicographer and historian (d.1934).
• Sidney Royse Lysaght, writer (d.1941).
• Ada Rehan, actress (d.1916).

[edit] Deaths

• 12 February - William Francis Patrick Napier, soldier and military historian (b.1785).
• 17 March - Anna Brownell Jameson, writer (b.1794).
• 23 October - Peter Boyle de Blaquière, politician in Canada and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (b.1783).
• 24 November - George Croly, poet, novelist, historian and divine (b.1780)^[4]

[edit] References