1855 in Ireland

none January 2024 April 2013 1855 Events from the year 1855 in Ireland. Events 5 April – opening of Boyne Viaduct at Drogheda by the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway completes permanent through rail communication between the two principal cities of Ireland.Share, Bernard Crossing the Boyne: the great Viaduct 1855–2005 Drogheda Iarnród Éireann; Old Drogheda Society 2005 22 August – The Roman Catholic St Mary's Cathedral, Killarney, is consecrated. October – Charles Gavan Duffy, founder of the Tenant Right League, emigrates to Australia.Moody T.W. Martin F.X. 1967 The Course of Irish History Mercier Press Cork 376 Charlemont Bridge over the River Blackwater, between Moy and Charlemont is constructed. Dublin Zoo buys its first pair of lions. Approximate date – the Corraghy Heads and Corleck Head are discovered.Waddell John https://www.academia.edu/27840012/The_Prehistoric_Archaeology_of_Ireland The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland https://web.archive.org/web/20230731204835/https://www.academia.edu/27840012/The_Prehistoric_Archaeology_of_Ireland 2023-07-31 Galway University Press 1998 1-8698-5739-9 Arts and literature The Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland publishes The Ancient Music of Ireland edited by George Petrie, including the first publication of the Londonderry Air as collected from a local fiddle player by Miss Jane Ross of Limavady. Births 27 April – Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, novelist (died 1897). 17 May – Timothy Michael Healy, Nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and first Governor-General of the Irish Free State (died 1931). 17 August – Andrew Jameson, public servant, businessman and Seanad member (died 1941). 25 August – Paddy Glynn, Attorney General of Australia and Minister for External Affairs (died 1931). 11 September – William Mulholland, water service engineer in Southern California (died 1935). Full date unknown – James Nowlan, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1901–1921) (died 1924). Deaths 14 March – Edward Ffrench Bromhead, mathematician (born 1789).Edward Bromhead – Oxford Biographical Index entry 13 August – Richard Bourke, soldier and Governor of New South Wales, Australia from 1831 to 1837 (born 1777). 13 November – James Hardiman, lawyer, librarian and historian (born 1782). See also 1855 in Scotland 1855 in Wales References Category:1850s in Ireland Ireland Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland Ireland