1849 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1849 in Ireland.

Events

30 - 31 March – Doolough Tragedy: at least 16 die when hundreds of the destitute and starving are forced to make a fatiguing journey on foot to receive outdoor relief in County Mayo.^[1]
21 April – Great Famine: 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse have died over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high. This year's potato crop again fails and there are renewed outbreaks of cholera.^[2]
12 July – Dolly's Brae conflict: Up to 1,400 armed Orangemen march from Rathfriland to Tollymore Park near Castlewellan, County Down. When 1000 armed Ribbonmen gather, shots are fired, Catholic homes are burnt and about eighty Catholics killed.^[3]
16 July – Donaghadee to Portpatrick packet service withdrawn.^[4]
2 - 12 August – visit of Queen Victoria to Cork, Dublin and Belfast,^[5] landing on 3 August at Cove, which is renamed Queenstown in her honour, and departing from Kingstown. She officially opens Queen's Bridge in Belfast.
18 October – Great Southern and Western Railway opens to Cork.^[6] ^[7]
Construction begins on the 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry, on the Dublin-Belfast railway line (opened in 1852).
George Boole appointed as first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork.^[8]
William Thompson begins publication (in London) of The Natural History of Ireland with the first volume on birds.

31 January – Robert James McMordie, solicitor, politician and Lord Mayor of Belfast (died 1914).
12 February – John Edward Robinson, Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (died 1922).
18 May – John Clark, boxer (died 1922).
9 July – Robert McCall, lawyer (died 1934).
1 August – William Larminie, poet and folklorist (died 1900).
16 August – James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington, businessman and philanthropist (died 1935).
24 October – Nugent Everard, soldier, Seanad member (died 1929).
19 November – James Mason, chess player and writer (died 1905).
12 December – Peter F. Collier, publisher (died 1909 in the United States)
Charles James O'Donnell, colonial administrator and MP (died 1934).

21 January – Anthony Manahan, businessman and politician in Upper Canada (born 1794).
26 January – Thomas Arbuthnot, British military officer (born 1776).
7 March – Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry, Whig politician (born 1774).
27 March – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, MP, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America (born 1776).
22 May – Maria Edgeworth, novelist (born 1767).
28 May – Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist (born 1797).
20 June – James Clarence Mangan, poet (born 1803) (cholera).
September – Daniel Robertson, architect and garden designer (born c. 1770 in British North America).
27 December – James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer (born 1807).

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Book: Ross, David. 2002. Ireland: History of a Nation. New. New Lanark. Geddes & Grosset. 1842051644. 313. registration.
Web site: Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events. Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). 28 January 2010.
Book: Ayres, George. History of the Mail Routes to Ireland until 1850. 22.
Web site: Queen Victoria in Ireland, August 1849. Sean. Connolly. Irish History Live. Queen's University Belfast. 2008. 2012-08-05.
Web site: Steaming into the Future. Ask about Ireland. 2013-01-05.
The Opening of the Mallow-Cork Railway 18th October 1849. Kevin. Myers. Mallow Field Club Journal. 17. 1999.
Web site: Boole Centre for Research in Informatics . 15 May 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190816105620/http://www.bcri.ucc.ie/ . 16 August 2019 . dead .