1860 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1860 in Ireland.

Events

• 25 February - £11,000 collected at church doors in Dublin to finance the Pope's defence against Italian nationalists. £80,000 collected nationwide. The equivalent of several millions in today's Euros.^[1]
• Deasy's Land Act,^[2] intended to reform tenants' rights.
• Construction begins on the Roman Catholic church that will become St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast.
• The Catholic Ballaghaderreen Cathedral is completed.
• 11 November - Kildare Street Club, Dublin, destroyed by fire.
• 21–23 November - The Partry evictions, County Mayo. Sixty eight families turned out of their houses by Thomas Plunket, Church of Ireland Bishop of Tuam.^[3]

Arts and literature

• 27 March - The melodrama The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen, written by and starring Dion Boucicault, is first performed at Miss Laura Keene's theatre, New York.^[4]
• Dr. George Sigerson's The Poets and Poetry of Munster is published.
• Anthony Trollope's novel Castle Richmond, set during the Great Famine, is completed and published in England.^[5]

Births

• 1 January - John Cassidy, sculptor and painter (died 1939).
• 17 January - Douglas Hyde, member of the Seanad in 1922 and 1938; first President of Ireland and Gaelic scholar (died 1949).
• 26 April - Gerald Carew, 5th Baron Carew (died 1927).^[6]
• 15 June - Robert Carew, 3rd Baron Carew (died 1923).^[7]
• 25 June - John Danaher, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 near Pretoria, South Africa (died 1919).
• 8 December - Amanda McKittrick Ros, novelist and poet (died 1939).

Full date unknown

• Patrick S. Dinneen, lexicographer and historian (died 1934)
• Sidney Royse Lysaght, writer (died 1941)
• Thomas Preston, scientist (died 1900)
• Ada Rehan, actress (died 1916)

Deaths

• 12 February - William Francis Patrick Napier, soldier and military historian (born 1785).
• 17 March - Anna Brownell Jameson, writer (born 1794).
• 23 October - Peter Boyle de Blaquière, politician in Canada and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (born 1783).
• 24 November - George Croly, poet, novelist, historian and divine (born 1780)^[8]

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