1843 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1843 in Ireland.

Events

January – Daniel O'Connell proclaims 1843 as the "Repeal Year".^[1]
31 January – Queen's Bridge in Belfast opens.^[2]
21 February – repeal (of the Act of Union) debate in Dublin Corporation.^[1]
17 March – earthquake in the Irish Sea.^[3]
11 June
- Series of monster meetings to agitate for repeal begins at Tuam.^[1]
- O'Connell's "Mallow defiance".^[1]
15 August – repeal meeting at Tara.^[1]
17 August – Loreto Abbey, Dalkey opened as a girls' boarding and day school by the Sisters of Loreto.
18 August – Dalkey Atmospheric Railway opens unofficially.
7 October – O'Connell gives in to government prohibition of Clontarf meeting planned for the next day. However, he is charged with conspiracy a few days later.^[1]
November – Devon Commission appointed to research the problems with land leases.^[1]
Work starts on the building of Crumlin Road Prison in Belfast.
George Cannock and Andrew White establish the Dublin business that becomes Arnotts department store.

Charles Lever's novel Arthur O'Leary: His wanderings and ponderings in many lands is published serially in Dublin University Magazine and Tom Burke of Ours begins serial publication in Dublin.

11 January – C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia (died 1902).
3 May – Edward Dowden, critic and poet (died 1913).
14 August – Thomas Workman, entomologist and arachnologist (died 1900).
6 November – William James Craig, Shakespearean scholar (died 1906).
24 November – Richard Croker, politician in America and a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall (died 1922).
21 December – Thomas Bracken, poet (died 1898 in New Zealand).
25 December
- Albert Cashier, born Jennie Hodgers, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, lived as a man (died 1915 in the United States).
- George Fisher, Mayor of Wellington (died 1905 in New Zealand).
28 December – George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian (died 1898).
Full date unknown – Joanna Hiffernan, artists' model (died after 1903).

19 February – Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor (born 1796).
11 May – William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey, politician and statesman (born 1783).^[4]
10 August – Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (born 1775).
16 November – Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (born 1773).
21 December – Edward Bunting, musician (born 1773).

Book: Moody, T. W. . Martin, F. X. . 1967. The Course of Irish History. Mercier Press. Cork. 375.
Web site: Belfast History Through The Years. Joe. Graham. 2003. 2011-03-30.
Web site: Notes on individual earthquakes. British Geological Survey. 8 December 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110516173115/http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/historical/historical_listing.htm. 16 May 2011.
Web site: Clare People: William Vesey-FitzGerald . 2007-04-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070408132053/http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/william_vesey_fitzgerald.htm . 2007-04-08 . dead .