1849 in Ireland
Events from the year 1849 in Ireland .
Events
30–31 March – Doolough Tragedy : at least 16 die when hundreds of the destitute and starving are forced to make a fatiguing journey on foot to receive outdoor relief in County Mayo .[ 1]
21 April – Great Famine : 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse have died over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high. This year's potato crop again fails and there are renewed outbreaks of cholera .[ 2]
12 July – Dolly's Brae conflict : Up to 1,400 armed Orangemen march from Rathfriland to Tollymore Park near Castlewellan , County Down . When 1000 armed Ribbonmen gather, shots are fired, Catholic homes are burnt and about eighty Catholics killed.[ 3]
16 July – Donaghadee to Portpatrick packet service withdrawn.[ 4]
2–12 August – visit of Queen Victoria to Cork , Dublin and Belfast ,[ 5] Cove , which is renamed Queenstown in her honour, and departing from Kingstown . She officially opens Queen's Bridge in Belfast.
18 October – Great Southern and Western Railway opens to Cork .[ 6] [ 7]
Construction begins on the 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry , on the Dublin-Belfast railway line (opened in 1852 ).
George Boole appointed as first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork .[ 8] William Thompson begins publication (in London) of The Natural History of Ireland
Births
31 January – Robert James McMordie , solicitor, politician and Lord Mayor of Belfast (died 1914 ).
12 February – John Edward Robinson , Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (died 1922).
18 May – John Clark , boxer (died 1922 ).
9 July – Robert McCall , lawyer (died 1934 ).
1 August – William Larminie , poet and folklorist (died 1900 ).
16 August – James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington , businessman and philanthropist (died 1935 ).
24 October – Nugent Everard , soldier, Seanad member (died 1929 ).
19 November – James Mason , chess player and writer (died 1905 ).
12 December – Peter F. Collier , publisher (died 1909 in the United States )
Charles James O'Donnell , colonial administrator and MP (died 1934 ).
Deaths
21 January – Anthony Manahan , businessman and politician in Upper Canada (born 1794 ).
26 January – Thomas Arbuthnot , British military officer (born 1776 ).
7 March – Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry , Whig politician (born 1774 ).
27 March – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford , MP , Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America (born 1776 ).
22 May – Maria Edgeworth , novelist (born 1767 ).
28 May – Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt , socialist (born 1797 ).
20 June – James Clarence Mangan , poet (born 1803 ) (cholera ).
September – Daniel Robertson , architect and garden designer (born c. 1770 in British North America).
27 December – James Fintan Lalor , revolutionary, journalist and writer (born 1807 ).
See also
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