1862 in Ireland

Events

Full date unknown

• The Dublin Fire Brigade was established under the Dublin Corporation Fire Brigades Act.

Arts and literature

Births

• 10 June - John de Robeck, admiral in the British Navy (d.1928).
• 11 June - Violet Florence Martin, author (d.1915).
• 14 June - John J. Glennon, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and Cardinal (d.1946).
• 21 September - Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet, peer, MP and Seanad member (d.1935).
• 14 October - Samuel Cunningham, politician and Irish Privy Councillor (d.1946).
• 6 November - Edward Bulfin, British general during World War I (d.1939).
• 15 December - Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (d.1896).

Full date unknown

• Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (d.1930).

Deaths

• 6 April - Fitz James O'Brien, author (b.1828).
• 21 May - John Drew, actor (b.1827).
• 18 July - John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) (b.1773).
• 30 July - Eugene O'Curry, scholar (b.1794).
• 30 November - James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (b.1784).

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