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1804 in Ireland
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1804
Events from the year 1804 in Ireland.
Events
thumb|left|11 February – last surviving 1798 rebellion faction destroyed
14 January – Richard Lovell Edgeworth's semaphore line between Dublin and Galway is operational, but is out of use by the end of the year.Adrian James Kirwan R. L. Edgeworth and optical telegraphy in Ireland, c.1790–1805 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Dublin 117C 2017 209–35
11 February – the last armed rebel group of the Society of United Irishmen, led by James Corcoran, is betrayed and killed or captured by yeomen near Enniscorthy.Ruan O'Donnell Aftermath: Post-Rebellion Insurgency in Wicklow, 1799–1803 2000 0-7165-2638-7
4–5 March – Castle Hill convict rebellion in New South Wales led by Irish convicts in Australia.Castle Hill convict rebellion 1804 http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/castle_hill_convict_rebellion_1804 Anne-Maree Whitaker Dictionary of Sydney 2013-03-03
April – first boat passes through the Grand Canal throughout between the River Liffey in Dublin and the River Shannon.Ruth Delany A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways Belfast Appletree Press 1988 0-86281-200-3 87
14 May – Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin, opens in Cork Street, Dublin.
First Martello Tower erected in Ireland, at Sutton, Dublin.History http://www.martellotowersutton.com/Tower_History-Origins.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100210013758/http://www.martellotowersutton.com/Tower_History-Origins.html dead February 10, 2010 Martello Tower Sutton 2012-04-25
thumb|Martello tower (South No.7) at Killiney
Births
Early February – James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (died 1864).
4 April – Andrew Nicholl, painter (died 1886).
7 April – James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller (died 1869).
18 November – John George, politician, judge and in 1859 Solicitor-General for Ireland (died 1871).
25 December – Frederic Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown, peer (died 1880).
26 December – Sir Joseph Napier, 1st Baronet, Conservative Party MP and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1882).
31 December – Francis Sylvester Mahony, humorist and poet (a.k.a. Father Prout) (died 1866).
Deaths
February – James Corcoran, rebel leader (born c.1770).
27 July – Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim, politician (born 1732).
See also
1804 in Scotland
1804 in Wales
References
Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland
Category:1800s in Ireland
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