1827 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1827 in Ireland.

Events

• 19 - 25 April – public theological debates in Dublin between Revs. R. T. P. Pope (Protestant) and Thomas Maguire (Roman Catholic).^[1]
• 6 September - October – Ordnance Survey staff survey a Lough Foyle baseline for their survey of Ireland.^[2]
• 24 September (Feast of Our Lady of Mercy) – Catherine McAuley opens an institution for destitute women and orphans and a school for the poor in Dublin.^[3]
• The British Army establishes Beggars Bush Barracks.
• Clonmel and Multyfarnham Friaries are re-established.
• Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin begins his diary, later published as Cín Lae Amhlaoibh.^[4]

Arts and literature

• Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes her romantic novel with political overtones, The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys, in London.

Births

• January – Bernard Diamond, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Bolandshahr, India (died 1892).
• 5 February – Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia (died 1889).
• 27 April – Mary Ward, scientist (died 1869).
• 5 May – Thomas Francis Hendricken, first Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island (died 1886).
• 29 May – Timothy Daniel Sullivan, journalist, politician and poet, writer of the Irish national hymn God Save Ireland (died 1914).
• 3 September – John Drew, actor in the United States (died 1862).
• 10 December – Eugene O'Keefe, businessman and philanthropist in Canada (died 1913).

Full date unknown

• Thomas Farrell, sculptor (died 1900).

• James Owens, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1901).

Deaths

• 14 November – Thomas Addis Emmet, lawyer and politician, member of United Irishmen (born 1764).

See also

• 1827 in Scotland
• 1827 in Wales

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Book: Hewitt, Rachel. Map of a Nation: a biography of the Ordnance Survey. registration. 2010. London. Granta. 9781847080981.
3. Book: Austin, Mary Stanislas. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10199a.htm. Sisters of Mercy. The Catholic Encyclopedia. 10. New York. Robert Appleton Company. 1911. 2013-01-29.
4. Web site: O'Sullivan, Humphrey_1780–1837_Irish_teacher, tradesman. The Diary Junction. PiKLe. July 2008. 2013-04-06.