1850 in Ireland
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Events
- Ongoing - Great Famine subsides.[1]
- 31 March - The paddle steamer RMS Royal Adelaide (1838), bound from Cork to London, sinks in the English Channel with the loss of all 250 on board.[2]
- 19 November - The barque Edmond sinks off Kilkee with the loss of 98 of the 216 aboard.
- Improved navigation of River Shannon throughout from Killaloe to Lough Key is completed.[3]
- Falmouth Kearney, a maternal great-great-great grandfather of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, emigrates from Moneygall to New York City at the age of 19.[4]
- The Encumbered Estates Commissioners sell off remaining Donegall estate properties in Belfast to the tenants.[5]
- Crumlin Road Courthouse in Belfast is completed.
Arts and literature
- Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre's poem Cúirt An Mheán Oíche is first published from the oral tradition in an edition by the scholar John O'Daly.
- Tara Brooch (c.700 AD) found near Laytown, County Meath.
Sport
- 27 February - Abd El Kader wins the Aintree Grand National in England, having been trained at Dardistown Castle by his owner, Joe Osborne.
Births
- 25 April - William Melville, police officer and first chief of the British Secret Service (died 1918).
- 9 June - Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony, Nationalist politician, barrister and philanthropist (died 1930).
- 24 June - Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British Field Marshal and statesman (died 1916).
- 22 December - Thomas O'Shaughnessy, lawyer and judge (died 1933).
Full date unknown
- James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon, Deputy Lieutenant in Ireland (died 1924).
- Edmond Holmes, educationalist, writer on religion and poet (died 1936).
- Thomas Lough, Liberal politician in Britain, Lord Lieutenant of Cavan (died 1922).
- Samuel Shumack, farmer and author in Australia (died 1940).
Deaths
- 6 August - Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (born 1782).
- 13 August - Martin Archer Shee, painter (born 1769).
- 18 August - Charles Arbuthnot, Tory politician and member of the Privy Council (born 1767).
Full date unknown
- William Reid Clanny, physician and inventor of the Clanny safety lamp for miners (born 1770).
- William Hamilton Maxwell, novelist (born 1792).
- Jon Riley, deserter from United States Army, a founder of the San Patricios (born 1805).
References
- ↑ Ross, David (2002). Ireland: History of a Nation (New ed.). New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset. p. 313. ISBN 1842051644.
- ↑ "Royal Adelaide (+1850)". wrecksite. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
- ↑ Delany, Ruth (1988). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 129. ISBN 0-86281-200-3.
- ↑ Jordan, Mary (2007-05-13). "Tiny Irish Village Is Latest Place to Claim Obama as Its Own". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
- ↑ Moody, T. W. et al., ed. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
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