1822 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1822 in Ireland.

Events

• 22 April – The Albion, a Black Ball Line trans-Atlantic packet, is driven ashore at Old Head of Kinsale with the loss of 46 of the 54 aboard.^{[1] [2]}
• 7 June – The Constitution; or, Cork Morning Post begins publication.
• 19 July – Percy Jocelyn, Anglican Bishop of Clogher, is caught in a compromising position with a young Grenadier Guardsman at a public house in London. He breaks bail and flees England. In October, an Irish ecclesiastical court deprives him of office.^[3]
• 21 September – HMS Confiance, a Royal Navy of 1813, is wrecked between Mizen Head and Three Castles Head near Crookhaven with the loss of all 100 aboard.^[4]
• Public gas lighting in Belfast.^[5]
• Mary Leadbeater's Cottage Biography, being a Collection of Lives of the Irish Peasantry is published.

Births

• 16 February – James Thomson, engineer and physicist (died 1892).
• 21 February – Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three times Chief Secretary for Ireland, Viceroy of India (assassinated 1872 in the Andaman Islands).
• 31 August – Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1896).
• September – Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (died 1863).
• 2 October – James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (died 1900).
• 11 October – Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (died 1907).
• November – John Divane, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1888).
• 4 December – Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (died 1904).
• 11 December – John Nicholson, military hero in India (died 1857).

Full date unknown

• James Byrne, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (died 1872).

• Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (died 1903).

• Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (died 1876).

Deaths

• 15 February – Pierce Butler, soldier, planter, statesman, one of United States' Founding Fathers, represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate (born 1744).
• 25 March – Robert Blake, dentist, first State Dentist of Dublin (born 1772).
• 12 August – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna (born 1769).
• John Bowden, ecclesiastical architect.

See also

• 1822 in Scotland
• 1822 in Wales

Notes and References

1. News: Ship News. The Morning Chronicle. London. 1822-04-27. 16544.
2. News: The Times. London. Shipwreck Of The Albion Packet. 1822-10-12. 3. 11668.
3. Web site: Geoghegan. Patrick M.. Jocelyn, Percy. Dictionary of Irish Biography. October 2009. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. 2024-03-16.
4. Book: Gossett, William Patrick. 1986. The Lost Ships of the Royal Navy, 1793–1900. London. Mansell. 0-7201-1816-6. 100.
5. History of the Town Gas Industry in Ireland 1823-1980. Colum. McCabe. Dublin Historical Record. 45. 1. Spring 1992. 28–40. Old Dublin Society. 30100966.