1820 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1820 in Ireland.

Events

• 30 January – Irish-born Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield in the Williams is the first person positively to identify Antarctica as a land mass.^[1]
• 12 February – the East Indian and Fanny set sail from Cork with settlers for the Cape Colony.^[2]
• 6 May – failure of Newport's Bank in Waterford.^[3]
• 25 May – failure of Roche's Bank and stoppage of Leslie's Bank in Cork.^[2]
• 3 June – the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne in Cork is largely destroyed by arson.^[4]
• 8 July – act for lighting the city and suburbs of Dublin with gas.^[2]
• 20 July – Saint Cronan's Boys' National School opens in Bray, County Wicklow, as the Bray Male School.
• December – Lough Allen Canal, giving through navigation between Carrick-on-Shannon and Lough Allen, opens.^[5]
• The Royal Dublin Society adopts its "Royal" prefix when the new king George IV of the United Kingdom becomes its patron.^[6]
• Suspension of construction of the Wellington Testimonial, Dublin, in Phoenix Park to the design of Robert Smirke.^[2]
• First steamship on the Irish Sea crossing from Dublin to Liverpool, the Waterloo, introduced by George Langtry of Belfast.
• Frederick Bourne begins to create the village of Ashbourne, County Meath.
• Publication of James Hardiman's The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time in Dublin.
• Denny Meats are founded.
• St. John's Church is built in Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare.^[7]

Arts and literature

• Charles Maturin (anonymously) publishes Melmoth the Wanderer.
• Regina Maria Roche publishes The Munster Cottage Boy: a Tale.

Births

• 19 February – John Tuigg, third Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (died 1889 in the United States).
• 31 May – Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 to 1853 (died 1853).
• 3 June – Thomas William Moffett, scholar, educationalist and president of Queen's College Galway (died 1908).
• 4 June – John Kean, businessman and politician in Ontario (died 1892).
• 2 August – John Tyndall, physicist (died 1893).
• 6 October – James Travers, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Indore, India (died 1884).
• 22 November – Katherine Plunket, botanical artist and longest-lived Irish person ever (died 1932).
• 30 December – Mary Anne Sadlier, novelist (died 1903).

Full date unknown

• Thomas Bellew, Galway landowner and politician (died 1863).

• John F. Kennedy's great-grandfather was born in the village of Dunganstown in County Wexford.

• Johnston Drummond, early settler of Western Australia, botanical and zoological collector (died 1845).

• Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at Little Inkerman (died 1863).

• Patrick Mylott, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 in India (died 1878).

• Henry Hamilton O'Hara "Mad O'hara", "The Mad Squire of Craigbilly" (died 1875).

• Kivas Tully, architect (died 1905).

Deaths

• 29 January – George III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1738).
• 5 February – William Drennan, physician, poet, educationalist and co-founder of the Society of United Irishmen (born 1754).
• 13 February – Leonard McNally, informant against members of the Society of United Irishmen (born 1752).
• 20 March – Eaton Stannard Barrett, poet and author (born 1786).
• 6 June – Henry Grattan, member of Irish House of Commons and campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament (born 1746).
• Undated – Anthony Daly, a leader of the Whiteboy movement, hanged for attempted murder.

See also

• 1820 in Scotland
• 1820 in Wales

Notes and References

1. Book: Jones, A. G. E.. 1982. Antarctica Observed: who discovered the Antarctic Continent?. Caedmon of Whitby. 0-905355-25-3.
2. Book: Moody, T. W.. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. 1989. 978-0-19-821744-2. etal.
3. Patrick. Grogan. A failed bank of Waterford in the eighteen-hundreds. Decies. Waterford. 73. 2017. 11–18.
4. Web site: Rebuilding. Cathedral Parish. Cork. 2012-07-17.
5. Book: Delany, Ruth. A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast. Appletree Press. 1988. 0-86281-200-3. 56.
6. Book: Royal Dublin Society, The. RDS: The Royal Dublin Society, 1731–1981. Meenan, James. Clarke, Desmond. 1981. Gill & Macmillan. Dublin. 978-0-7171-1125-1. 30.
7. Web site: Saint John's Church (Ballymore Eustace), BALLYMORE EUSTACE EAST (B'MORE EUST. ED), Ballymore Eustace, KILDARE . 6 January 2003. . buildingsofireland.ie . 25 May 2024 .