1847 in Ireland explained
Events from the year 1847 in Ireland.
Events
- 12 April – the Massachusetts Donation of 1847 arrives at Cork on USS Jamestown.
- 28 April – the brig Exmouth carrying emigrants from Derry bound for Quebec is wrecked off Islay with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.[5] [6]
- May – typhus epidemic of 1847 among Irish emigrants arriving by ship in Canada.
- 15 May – death of political campaigner Daniel O'Connell, "The Emancipator", of cerebral softening in Genoa while on a pilgrimage to Rome at the age of 71.[4] His heart is buried in Sant'Agata dei Goti, at this time chapel of the Irish College in Rome, and his body in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, beneath a round tower.
- June – Poor Law Amendment Act.[4] From August, the permanent Poor Law becomes responsible for providing relief of the destitute.[1]
- 26 August – 1847 United Kingdom general election concludes with Repeal Association candidates receiving a majority of Irish votes, but the American Charles MacTavish's election in Dundalk will be overturned on appeal.
- Summer – extension of Courtown pier, the first application for such a structure of Alexander Mitchell's screw-pile foundations.[7]
- December – John Mitchel breaks away from The Nation.[4]
- Robert Holmes publishes The Case of Ireland Stated, proposing repeal of the Acts of Union 1800.
Arts and literature
- March – Anthony Trollope's first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, largely written at Drumsna between September 1843 and June 1845 and with a contemporary Irish setting, is published in London.[8] [9]
- Charles Lever's novel The Knight of Gwynne, a tale of the time of the Union is published serially in London.
- Publishers Simms & McIntyre of Belfast introduce their Parlour Library of fiction reprints.
Births
- 30 May – Alice Stopford Green, nationalist, historian and journalist (died 1929).
- 31 May – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman (died 1924).
- 17 June – Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, civil servant, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India (died 1932).
- 15 July – J. J. Clancy, Member of Parliament, barrister and journalist (born 1928).
- 28 August – Norman Garstin, artist (died 1926).
- 20 September – Michael Cusack, founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association (died 1906).
- 9 October – John Coleman, United States Marine, recipient of Medal of Honor for his actions in 1871 during the Korean Expedition (died 1897).
- 8 November – Bram Stoker, writer and author of Dracula (died 1912).
- 10 November – Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, philanthropist and businessman (died 1927).
- 15 November – James O'Neill, actor, father of the American playwright Eugene O'Neill (died 1920).
- 12 December – John O'Kane Murray, physician and author (died 1885).
- Full date unknown
Deaths
- 11 February – Andrew Clarke, soldier, Governor of Western Australia (born 1793).
- February – Michael John Brenan, priest and ecclesiastical historian (born 1780).
- April – Thomas Barnwall Martin, soldier, landowner and politician (born 1784).
- 15 May – Daniel O'Connell, politician, campaigner for Catholic Emancipation and Repeal of the Union (born 1775).
- 7 August – James Daly, 1st Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal, politician (born 1782).
- 10 September – Richard Henry Wilde, lawyer and Congressman in USA (born 1789).
- 14 September – Sir John Burke, 2nd Baronet, soldier and politician (born 1782).[10]
- Full date unknown
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Kinealy, Christine. This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845–52. registration. Dublin. Gill & Macmillan. 1994. 978-0-7171-1832-8.
- Book: Debo, Angie. Angie Debo. The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic. 1935.
- Book: Hatton, Helen Elizabeth. 1993. The Largest Amount of Good: Quaker Relief in Ireland, 1654–1921. Montreal. McGill–Queen's Press. 978-0-7735-0959-7.
- Book: Moody, T.W. . Martin, F.X. . 1967. The Course of Irish History. Mercier Press. Cork. 376.
- Web site: The Exmouth – a terrible tragedy on Islay. Isle of Islay. 2011. 2012-07-13.
- Web site: The Exmouth shipwreck off the Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland. My Secret Northern Ireland. 2012-07-13.
- Alan J.. Lutenegger. Historical development of iron screw-pile foundations, 1836–1900. International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology. Newcomen Society. 81. 2011. 108–28. 10.1179/175812109X12547332391989. 109521534.
- Book: Trollope, Anthony. 1883. An Autobiography. https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/trollope/anthony/autobiography/chapter4.html. Chapter 4. 2010-07-02. 2010-04-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20100404080458/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/trollope/anthony/autobiography/chapter4.html. dead.
- Book: Terry, R. C.. Anthony Trollope: The Artist in Hiding. London. Macmillan. 1977. 978-0333219232. 175–200.
- Book: Foster . Joseph . The baronetage and knightage . 1881 . Nichols and Sons . 89 . en.