1852 in Ireland

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1852
in
Ireland

Decades:	1830s • 1840s • 1850s • 1860s • 1870s
Centuries:	17th • 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st
See also:	1852 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1852 List of years in Ireland

Events

5 January - The troopship HMS Birkenhead boards British Army recruits at Queenstown. It has insufficient lifeboats.
26 February - The Birkenhead founders off the coast of South Africa. The soldiers stand to attention while women and children are placed in the lifeboats.
10 June
- The 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry on the Dublin-Belfast railway line is opened (construction began in 1849).^[1]
- The Irish Industrial Exhibition is opened in Cork.^[2]
End of the Great Famine.^[3] In the period it has lasted since 1845, one million people have emigrated from Ireland. The Irish now make up a quarter of the population of Liverpool, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore; and a half of Toronto.
Tenant farmer Michael O'Regan emigrates from County Tipperary to London. He will become paternal great-grandfather to Ronald Reagan, President of the United States.

Edmund Falconer produces his first collection of poems Man’s Mission: A Pilgrimage to Glory’s Goal^[4] whilst working as a jobbing actor.

25 January - Nevill Coghill, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Isandhlwana, South Africa (died 1879).
28 January - Louis Brennan, inventor (died 1932).
2 February - Lawrence E. McGann, Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois (died 1928).
24 February - George Moore, novelist, poet, art critic and dramatist (died 1933).
29 February - Frank Gavan Duffy, fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (died 1936).
15 March - Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist and folklorist (died 1932).
17 March - Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest, author and political activist (died 1913).
27 March - Jim Connell, political activist, writer of The Red Flag (died 1929).

28 July - Barton McGuckin, tenor singer (died 1913).
30 September - Charles Villiers Stanford, composer (died 1924).
2 October - William O'Brien, nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher and author (died 1928).

25 February - Thomas Moore, poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer (born 1779).
25 April - Arthur O'Connor, United Irishman and later general in Napoleon's army (born 1763).
8 May - Charles Rowan, joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police (b. c1782).
14 September - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman (born 1769).

↑ Patterson, T. G. (1975). "Railways in County Armagh, 1841-1957". Harvest Home: The Last Sheaf. Armagh County Museum. pp. 104–112. ISBN 0950478008. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
↑ Pelle, Kimberley D. "Appendix D: Fairs Not Included". In Findling, John E. (ed). Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 414–422. ISBN 9780786434169.
↑ Kinealy, Christine (1994). This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-1852. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. pp. xvi–ii. ISBN 0-7171-4011-3.
↑ 's+mission+a+pilgrimage+to+glory+s+goal A Dictionary of the Anonymous.... Google Books. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
↑ "Welcome to The Curragh Golf Club". The Curragh Golf Club. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
↑ Siggins, Gerard (2005). Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792–2005. Stroud: Nonsuch Publishing Ltd. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-84588-512-0.

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