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1816 in Ireland
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1816
Events from the year 1816 in Ireland.
Events
The Year Without a Summer – famine and typhoid kill 65,000 people by 1819.Hugh Fenning Typhus Epidemic in Ireland, 1817–1819: Priests, Ministers, Doctors. Collectanea Hibernica 1999 0-385-40818-8 117–152
January – Belfast Savings Bank opens for business.Pilson James Adair History of the Rise and Progress of Belfast: And Annals of the County Antrim John Mullen 1846 Belfast
30 January – wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville (military transport ships) off Tramore in a gale with the loss of over 500 persons.Farrell Daniel 2020-01-30 Remembering the Sea Horse lost off Tramore 30th January 1816 https://coastmonkey.ie/remembering-the-sea-horse/ 2020-07-06 Coast Monkey en-GB
17 March – Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.20005737 O'Donovan Rossa Bridge
May – the Ha'penny Bridge is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.Carty Ed 2016-05-19 Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge celebrates 200th birthday http://www.irishnews.com/news/republicofirelandnews/2016/05/19/news/dublin-s-ha-penny-bridge-celebrates-200th-birthday-524927/ 2020-07-06 The Irish News en
18 May – the National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded.O'Day Alan Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800 Fleming Neil Routledge 2005 978-0-582-08102-4 NY: USA 7
June – St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland.History http://stgeorges.connor.anglican.org/history/ The Parish Church of St George, Belfast 2012-08-01
29–30 October – Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in County Louth.Dooley Terence The Murders at Wildgoose Lodge Four Courts Press 2007 978-1-84682-085-4
Templemore Town Hall is built in County Tipperary.Templemore Town Hall, Main Street, Main Street, KILTILLANE, Templemore, Tipperary North https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22308037/templemore-town-hall-main-street-main-street-kiltillane-templemore-tipperary-north 2020-07-06 Buildings of Ireland en-GB
Births
6 February – John Joseph Lynch, Bishop of Toronto (died 1888).
1 March – Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton (died 1898).
14 March – Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (died 1897).
8 April – Frederick William Burton, painter (died 1900).
12 April – Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (died 1903).
31 July – Trevor Chute, British Army officer (died 1886).
17 September – John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada (died 1900).
30 October – Richard Quain, physician (died 1898).
Full date unknown
John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there (died 1906).
John O'Mahony, a founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood (died 1877).
Deaths
24 April – James Orr, rhyming weaver poet (born 1770).
3 May – James McHenry, signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, third United States Secretary of War (born 1753).
7 July – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman (born 1751).
Full date unknown
Robert Fagan, painter, diplomat and archaeologist (b. c1761).
See also
1816 in Scotland
1816 in Wales
References
Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland
Category:1810s in Ireland
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