1822 in Ireland

none thumb|right|alt=Painting of the ship being swept into the rocks|The packet ship Albion runs aground, on the coast of Ireland off Garretstown near Old Point of Kinsale on April 22 1822 1822 Events from the year 1822 in Ireland. Events 22 April – The Albion, a Black Ball Line trans-Atlantic packet, is driven ashore at Old Head of Kinsale with the loss of 46 of the 54 aboard.Ship News The Morning Chronicle London 1822-04-27 16544The Times London Shipwreck Of The Albion Packet 1822-10-12 3 11668 7 June – The Constitution; or, Cork Morning Post begins publication. 19 July – Percy Jocelyn, Anglican Bishop of Clogher, is caught in a compromising position with a young Grenadier Guardsman at a public house in London. He breaks bail and flees England. In October, an Irish ecclesiastical court deprives him of office.Geoghegan Patrick M. Jocelyn, Percy https://www.dib.ie/biography/jocelyn-percy-a4281 Dictionary of Irish Biography October 2009 Royal Irish Academy Dublin 2024-03-16 21 September – HMS Confiance, a Royal Navy Cruizer brig-sloop 1 of 1813, is wrecked between Mizen Head and Three Castles Head near Crookhaven with the loss of all 100 aboard.Gossett William Patrick 1986 The Lost Ships of the Royal Navy, 1793–1900 London Mansell 0-7201-1816-6 100 Public gas lighting in Belfast.History of the Town Gas Industry in Ireland 1823-1980 Colum McCabe Dublin Historical Record 45 1 Spring 1992 28–40 Old Dublin Society 30100966 Mary Leadbeater's Cottage Biography, being a Collection of Lives of the Irish Peasantry is published. Births 16 February – James Thomson, engineer and physicist (died 1892). 21 February – Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three times Chief Secretary for Ireland, Viceroy of India (assassinated 1872 in the Andaman Islands). 31 August – Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1896). September – Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (died 1863). 2 October – James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (died 1900). 11 October – Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (died 1907). November – John Divane, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1888). 4 December – Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (died 1904). 11 December – John Nicholson, military hero in India (died 1857). Full date unknown James Byrne, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (died 1872). Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (died 1903). Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (died 1876). Deaths 15 February – Pierce Butler, soldier, planter, statesman, one of United States' Founding Fathers, represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate (born 1744). 25 March – Robert Blake, dentist, first State Dentist of Dublin (born 1772). 12 August – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna (born 1769). John Bowden, ecclesiastical architect. See also 1822 in Scotland 1822 in Wales References Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland Category:1820s in Ireland Ireland Ireland