1814 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1814 in Ireland.

Events

• 1 February – Royal Belfast Academical Institution opened as a school and college.^[1]
• 18 June – improved navigation of River Shannon between Limerick and Killaloe opens.^[2]
• 25 December – inauguration of Chapel Royal, Dublin, designed by Francis Johnston.
• Apprentice Boys of Derry Club formed (although the siege of Derry has been celebrated from the 17th century).^[3]
• William Shaw Mason's A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland, drawn up from the communications of the clergy begins publication in Dublin.^[4]

Arts and literature

• 27 May – Harriet Smithson makes her stage debut at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, as Albina Mandeville in Frederick Reynolds's The Will.^[5]
• Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes her novel O'Donnell.

Births

• 10 January – Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic (died 1902).
• 9 May – John Brougham, actor and dramatist (died 1880).
• 18 August – David Moriarty, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry (died 1877).
• 28 August – Sheridan Le Fanu, writer (died 1873).
• 3 September – Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor (died 1881).
• 14 October – Thomas Osborne Davis, lawyer and writer, author of the song "A Nation Once Again" (died 1845).
• 3 December – William Fitzgerald, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (died 1883).

Full date unknown

• Daniel Devlin, businessman and City Chamberlain in New York (died 1867).

• John Lalor, journalist and author (died 1856).

• Mary O'Connell, nurse during the American Civil War (died 1897).

• Charles O'Hea, Catholic Priest, baptised Ned Kelly and ministered to him before he was hanged in 1880 (died 1903).

• John Purcell, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India, later killed in action (died 1857).

Deaths

• 8 May (suicide) – William Nelson Gardiner, eccentric engraver and bookseller (born 1766).
• 17 June – Henry Tresham, historical painter (born c.1751).
• 9 July – Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighton, founder of two Catholic religious congregations and St Patrick's College, Carlow.
• 10 August – George Ogle, politician (born 1742).
• 21 November – Juan Mackenna, soldier of fortune (born 1771).
• 9 December – Arturo O'Neill, soldier of fortune (born 1736).
• 20 December – Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald, lawyer, soldier and politician (born 1751).
• Geoffrey Font, centenarian (born 1709).

See also

• 1814 in Scotland
• 1814 in Wales

Notes and References

1. Web site: History. The Royal Belfast Academical Institution. 2012-08-01. 20 September 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120920001433/http://www.rbai.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=108. dead.
2. Book: Delany, Ruth. A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast. Appletree Press. 1988. 0-86281-200-3. 55.
3. Web site: Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events. Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). 2010-01-28.
4. Mason, William Shaw. 36.
5. Web site: Peter. Raby. Smithson, Harriet Constance (1800–1854). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. 2012-11-12. 10.1093/ref:odnb/25943.