1830 in Ireland

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Events

• February - First Roman Catholics take their seats in the House of Commons at Westminster, among then Daniel O'Connell (for County Clare) and Richard More O'Ferrall (Kildare).^[1]
• 12 July - Orange Institution parades lead to confrontations between Orangemen and Ribbonmen in Maghera and Castledawson in County Londonderry. Several Catholic homes are burned by Protestants following these clashes.^[2]
• July - Potato crop failure the previous year leads to widespread famine. Food riots in Limerick and Leitrim.
• August - First Dublin Horse Show.
• November - Ribbonmen attack an Orange band, puncturing some of their drums. The Orangemen retaliate by burning the Catholic village of Maghery, County Armagh, to the ground.^[2]
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  • The Remonstrant Synod of Ulster is formed by non-subscribing Presbyterians.
  • T. & A. Mulholland open the 8000-spindle York Street flax mill in Belfast.^[3]
  • Austins established in the Diamond, Derry. As of 2010 it will be the world's oldest independent department store.^[4]
  • Sir Jonah Barrington (being resident in France to avoid his creditors) is removed from the judiciary following an Address to the King by both Houses of Parliament, a unique event.
  • William Carleton publishes Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry and Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman, a fictionalised account of the Wildgoose Lodge Murders of 1816.
  • The private Markree Observatory is set up.

Births

January to June

• 1 January - William James Lendrim, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the Siege of Sevastopol, Crimea (died 1891).
• 10 April - John Sullivan, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1884).
• 1 May - Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, labor and community organizer, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and Socialist in America (died 1930).
• 12 May - Maurice O'Rorke, politician and Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives (died 1916).
• 25 May - Hugh Nelson, politician in Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia (died 1893).

July to December

• 23 July - John O' Leary, Fenian poet (died 1907).^[5]
• 12 August - John O'Connor, painter (died 1889).
• 29 August - Charles Bowen, politician in New Zealand (died 1917).
• 16 September - Patrick Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney (died 1911).
• 20 September - Arthur Thomas Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at the Battle of Khushab, Persia (died 1913).
• 20 September - Hans Garrett Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1877 at Komgha, South Africa (died 1889).
• October - John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea (died 1857).
• 22 November - Justin McCarthy, politician, historian and novelist (died 1912).
• 24 December - Harry Hammon Lyster, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Calpee, India (died 1922).

Full date unknown

• Brian Dillon, Fenian leader (d. c1872).
• Robert Dwyer Joyce, music collector and writer (died 1883).
• Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1857).
• William R. Roberts, diplomat, Fenian Society member and United States Representative from New York (died 1897).
• Eyre Massey Shaw, Superintendent of the (London) Metropolitan Fire Brigade (died 1908).

Deaths

• 26 June - George IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1762).
• 11 October - Richard John Uniacke, lawyer, politician, member of Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly and Attorney General of Nova Scotia (born 1753).

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