1820 in Ireland

none October 2021 April 2013 1820 Events from the year 1820 in Ireland. Events 30 January – Irish-born Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield in the Williams is the first person positively to identify Antarctica as a land mass.A. G. E. Jones 1982 Antarctica Observed: who discovered the Antarctic Continent? Caedmon of Whitby 0-905355-25-3 12 February – the East Indian and Fanny set sail from Cork with settlers for the Cape Colony.Moody, T. W. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History Oxford University Press 1989 978-0-19-821744-2 etal 6 May – failure of Newport's Bank in Waterford.Patrick Grogan A failed bank of Waterford in the eighteen-hundreds Decies Waterford 73 2017 11–18 25 May – failure of Roche's Bank and stoppage of Leslie's Bank in Cork. 3 June – the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne in Cork is largely destroyed by arson.Rebuilding http://www.corkcathedral.ie/history/j/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=24&Itemid=26 Cathedral Parish Cork 2012-07-17February 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes 8 July – act for lighting the city and suburbs of Dublin with gas. 20 July – Saint Cronan's Boys' National School opens in Bray, County Wicklow, as the Bray Male School. December – Lough Allen Canal, giving through navigation between Carrick-on-Shannon and Lough Allen, opens.Ruth Delany A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways Belfast Appletree Press 1988 0-86281-200-3 56 The Royal Dublin Society adopts its "Royal" prefix when the new king George IV of the United Kingdom becomes its patron.RDS: The Royal Dublin Society, 1731–1981 Royal Dublin Society The Meenan, James Clarke, Desmond 1981 Gill & Macmillan Dublin 978-0-7171-1125-1 30 https://books.google.com/books?id=kpUlAAAAMAAJ&q=%22royal+dublin+society%22+1820 Suspension of construction of the Wellington Testimonial, Dublin, in Phoenix Park to the design of Robert Smirke. First steamship on the Irish Sea crossing from Dublin to Liverpool, the Waterloo, introduced by George Langtry of Belfast. Frederick Bourne begins to create the village of Ashbourne, County Meath. Publication of James Hardiman's The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time in Dublin. Denny Meats are founded. St. John's Church is built in Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare. https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/11820023/saint-johns-church-ballymore-eustace-east-bmore-eust-ed-ballymore-eustace-co-kildare 6 January 2003 National Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildingsofireland.ie Saint John's Church (Ballymore Eustace), BALLYMORE EUSTACE EAST (B'MORE EUST. ED), Ballymore Eustace, KILDARE 25 May 2024 Arts and literature Charles Maturin (anonymously) publishes Melmoth the Wanderer. Regina Maria Roche publishes The Munster Cottage Boy: a Tale. Births 19 February – John Tuigg, third Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (died 1889 in the United States). 31 May – Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 to 1853 (died 1853). 3 June – Thomas William Moffett, scholar, educationalist and president of Queen's College Galway (died 1908). 4 June – John Kean, businessman and politician in Ontario (died 1892). 2 August – John Tyndall, physicist (died 1893). 6 October – James Travers, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Indore, India (died 1884). 22 November – Katherine Plunket, botanical artist and longest-lived Irish person ever (died 1932). 30 December – Mary Anne Sadlier, novelist (died 1903). Full date unknown Thomas Bellew, Galway landowner and politician (died 1863). John F. Kennedy's great-grandfather was born in the village of Dunganstown in County Wexford. Johnston Drummond, early settler of Western Australia, botanical and zoological collector (died 1845). Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at Little Inkerman (died 1863). Patrick Mylott, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 in India (died 1878). Henry Hamilton O'Hara "Mad O'hara", "The Mad Squire of Craigbilly" (died 1875). Kivas Tully, architect (died 1905). Deaths 29 January – George III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1738). 5 February – William Drennan, physician, poet, educationalist and co-founder of the Society of United Irishmen (born 1754). 13 February – Leonard McNally, informant against members of the Society of United Irishmen (born 1752). 20 March – Eaton Stannard Barrett, poet and author (born 1786). 6 June – Henry Grattan, member of Irish House of Commons and campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament (born 1746). Undated – Anthony Daly, a leader of the Whiteboy movement, hanged for attempted murder. See also 1820 in Scotland 1820 in Wales References Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland Ireland Ireland