1817 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1817 in Ireland.
Events
- 26 May - Completion of Royal Canal throughout from Dublin to the River Shannon at Tarmonbarry.[1]
- 31 May - First stone of new pier at the port of Dunleary is laid.[2]
- 16 June - Poor Law Employment Act empowers the Lord Lieutenant to appoint commissioners of public works to supervise construction of public works to relieve unemployment financed by mortgages of rates.[2]
- 17 June - First stone of Wellington Testimonial, Dublin, is laid in Phoenix Park.[2]
- 11 July - An Act to provide for the establishment of asylums for the lunatic poor in Ireland.[2]
- c. July - Tradesman Jeffery Sedwards establishes the Skibbereen Abstinence Society, considered the first organisation devoted to teetotalism in Europe.[2]
- 30 September - National fever committee appointed to distribute government relief[2] to victims of the typhus epidemic (October 1816–December 1819).
- Edward O'Reilly's Irish-English Dictionary is published.
Arts and literature
- 19 April - Charles Wolfe's poem The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna is first published in the Newry Telegraph.[2]
- 27 May - Thomas Moore's poem Lalla-Rookh: an Oriental romance is first published in London.[2]
- June - Maria Edgeworth's novel Ormond: a tale is first published in London[2] together with Harrington.
Births
- 6 January - J. J. McCarthy, architect (died 1882).
- 10 March - Patrick Neeson Lynch, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston (South Carolina) (died 1882).
- 26 May - Denis Florence MacCarthy, poet, translator and biographer (died 1882).
- 3 June - Robert Warren, lawyer and politician (died 1897).
- 12 July - William Henry Gregory, politician and writer (died 1892).
- 19 September - Charles Joseph Alleyn, lawyer and political figure in Quebec (died 1890).
- 11 October - Walter Shanly, civil engineer, author, businessman and politician in Canada (died 1899).
- 12 November - John T. Mills, lawyer and Supreme Court Justice for the Republic of Texas (died 1871).
- 22 November - Sir William Ewart, 1st Baronet, manufacturer and politician (died 1889).
- 7 December - William Keogh, lawyer and politician (died 1878).
Full date unknown
- John Willoughby Crawford, politician and third Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1875).
- James Anthony Lawson, lawyer (died 1887).
- Frederick McCoy, palaeontologist and museum administrator in Australia (died 1899).
- Arthur McQuade, farmer and politician in Ontario (died 1884).
Deaths
- 23 May - John Prendergast Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort, politician (born 1742).
- 13 June - Richard Lovell Edgeworth, politician, writer and inventor (born 1744).
- 5 September - Charles Osborne, lawyer and politician (born 1759).
- 14 October - John Philpot Curran, orator and wit, lawyer and MP (born 1750).
- 13 November - John Keogh, merchant and political activist (born 1740).
References
- ↑ Delany, Ruth (1988). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-86281-200-3.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Moody, T. W. et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. p. 302. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.