1808 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1808 in Ireland.

Events

• 2 February – Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, founds the Patrician Brothers.
• 15 February – laying of the foundation stone for Nelson's Pillar in Dublin
• 6 June – the Bank of Ireland moves its premises to the former Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green, Dublin.
• 12 July – Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley embarks troops at Cork to join the Peninsular War in Portugal.^[1]
• 15 August – seven men, including Edmund Rice, take religious promises under John Power, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, as the Presentation Brothers.^[2]
• 22 August – the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne in Cork is dedicated.^[3]

Arts and literature

• Mary Leadbeater's Poems published.
• Rev. Charles Maturin's novel The Wild Irish Boy published under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy.
• Thomas Moore's A Selection of Irish Melodies (first two volumes) published.

Births

• 15 May – Michael William Balfe, composer (died 1870).
• Anne Elizabeth Ball, phycologist (died 1872).
• Joseph Francis Olliffe, physician (died 1869).

Deaths

• 10 February – Hugh Douglas Hamilton, artist (b. c1734).
• 30 September – Peter Russell, gambler, government official, politician and judge in Upper Canada (born 1733).

See also

• 1808 in Scotland
• 1808 in Wales

Notes and References

1. Web site: Norman. Gash. Norman Gash. Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. 2012-10-12. 10.1093/ref:odnb/29001.
2. Book: Normoyle, M. C.. A Tree is Planted: the Life and Times of Edmund Rice. Congregation of Christian Brothers. 1976. 71.
3. Web site: August 1808. Cathedral Parish. Cork. 2012-07-17.