1846 in Ireland

none August 2012 1846 Events from the year 1846 in Ireland. Events Ongoing – Great Hunger: The first deaths from hunger took place early in the year.Thomas Keneally Thomas Keneally 1999 The Great Shame London Vintage 110 Phytophthora infestans almost totally destroyed the summer potato crop and the Famine worsened considerably.David Ross 2002 Ireland: History of a Nation https://archive.org/details/irelandhistoryof0000ross registration By December, a third of a million destitute people were employed on public works. 13 March – Ballinlass incident: 300 tenants were evicted in the village of Ballinlass in County Galway. 4 August – Kingsbridge Station (now Heuston Station) opened in Dublin as the terminus and headquarters of the Great Southern and Western Railway Jacob Wm. J. Kingsbridge Terminus Dublin Historical Record 6 3 113 Old Dublin Society Dublin 1944-06-01 30105471 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30105471 19 July 2022 19 July 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220719124337/https://www.jstor.org/stable/30105471 live 22 September – the Great Western Steamship Company's Great Britain, bound from Liverpool for New York, ran aground in Dundrum Bay (County Down). She lay there for almost a year, protected by temporary measures organised by her designer, I. K. Brunel.Great Britain Isambard Kingdom Brunel http://www.mybrunel.co.uk/ships/britain/index.php 2013-03-21 Full date unknown Maziere Brady succeeded Sir Edward Sugden as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, an office which he would hold (with short intervals) until 1866.Ball F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921 https://archive.org/details/judgesinireland10002ball registration John Murray London 1926 HM Prison Crumlin Road in Belfast was opened with the arrival of the first inmates, who were forced to walk from Carrickfergus Prison in chains. Arts and literature The first substantial English translation of the Annals of the Four Masters, made by Owen Connellan, was published. The Anglo-Celt newspaper began weekly publication in Cavan. Historian Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (Roderic O'Flaherty)'s Chorographical description of West or Iar Connacht (1684) was first published.Moody, T. W. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History Oxford University Press 1989 978-0-19-821744-2 etal Births 10 February – Lord Charles Beresford, British admiral (died 1919) 13 February – John O'Connor Power, Irish Nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (died 1919). 25 March – Michael Davitt, republican, nationalist agrarian agitator, social campaigner, labour leader and Irish National Land League founder (died 1906). 27 June – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader (died 1891). 30 June – Frances Margaret Milne, author and librarian (died 1910 in the United States). 22 July – Alfred Perceval Graves, writer (died 1931). 13 August – Otto Jaffe, twice elected as Irish Unionist Party Lord Mayor of Belfast (died 1929). 10 September – John F. Finerty, U.S. Representative from Illinois (died 1908). 18 September – Standish James O'Grady, author, journalist and historian (died 1928). 23 August – Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, politician and barrister (died 1921). 9 October – Frank Hugh O'Donnell, writer and nationalist politician (died 1916). 18 November – Samuel Cleland Davidson, inventor and engineer (died 1921) Deaths 3 April – Zozimus (Michael J. Moran), comic poet (b. c. 1794) 12 October – Lawrence Kavenagh, bushranger (b. c. 1805) exact date unknown – George Darley, poet, novelist and critic (born 1795). See also 1846 in Scotland 1846 in Wales References Category:1840s in Ireland Ireland Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland