1862 in Ireland

none 1862 Events from the year 1862 in Ireland. Events 1 January – a formal partnership between Edward Harland and Gustav Wilhelm Wolff establishes the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff.Moody, T. W. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History Oxford University Press 1989 978-0-19-821744-2 etalMoss, Michael Hume, John R. Shipbuilders to the World: 125 years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast 1861–1986 1986 Blackstaff Press Belfast 0-85640-343-1 12 May – the Ulster Hall, a concert hall in Belfast, is opened.Chris Page Revamped Ulster Hall unveiled BBC News Online 2009-03-06 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7927362.stm 2012-03-20 July – the Glasgow & Stranraer Steam Packet Company's Briton enters service on the first Stranraer to Larne ferry service.http://www.portoflarne.co.uk/about-us/history/ History Port of Larne 2014-04-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20190310020107/http://www.portoflarne.co.uk/about-us/history 2019-03-10 dead 10 September – Eliza Lynch becomes de facto First Lady of Paraguay. 3 December – the Midland Great Western Railway extends from Longford to Sligo.1862 – the year Sligo's first train rolled into town https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/lifestyle/1862-the-year-sligos-first-train-rolled-into-town/28982732.html The Sligo Champion 2012-11-27 2013-01-03 Undated The Dublin Fire Brigade is established under the Dublin Corporation Fire Brigades Act. Publication of The Leadbeater Papers, containing the first edition of the Annals of Ballitore by Mary Leadbeater (died 1826). Arts and literature Julia Kavanagh publishes French Women of Letters. Charles Lever publishes the novel Barrington serially. Births 2 April – Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (died 1930). 27 May – John Edward Campbell, mathematician (died 1924 in Oxford). 10 June – John de Robeck, admiral in the British Navy (died 1928). 11 June – Violet Florence Martin, author (died 1915). 14 June – John J. Glennon, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and Cardinal (died 1946). 21 September – Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet, peer, MP and Seanad member (died 1935). 14 October – Samuel Cunningham, politician and Irish Privy Councillor (died 1946). 6 November – Edward Bulfin, British general during World War I (died 1939). 15 December – Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (died 1896). Gertrude Kelly, surgeon and radical activist in New York (died 1934 in the United States). Deaths 6 April – Fitz James O'Brien, author (born 1828). 21 May – John Drew, actor (born 1827). 18 July – John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) (born 1773). 30 July – Eugene O'Curry, scholar (born 1794). 30 November – James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (born 1784). See also 1862 in Scotland 1862 in Wales References Category:1860s in Ireland Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland Ireland Ireland