1854 in Ireland explained

Events

9 January – Fastnet Rock lighthouse first lit.
21 January – the iron clipper runs aground on Lambay Island on her maiden voyage out of Liverpool with the loss of at least 300 of around 650 on board.
18 May – Catholic University of Ireland formally established in Dublin with John Henry Newman as first rector; lectures commence on 3 November.
21 June – during the First Battle of Bomarsund, Scarva-born Mate Charles Davis Lucas throws a live shell overboard, the earliest action to result in award of the Victoria Cross (in 1857).^[1]
20 September – during the Battle of the Alma, Elphin-born Sergeant Luke O'Connor saves the colours, the earliest action to result in award of the Victoria Cross to a soldier.
Quarrel between Tenant League and Archbishop Cullen; League appeals to Rome.^[2]

1 January (possible) – Thomas Waddell, Irish-Australian politician, 15th Premier of New South Wales (died 1940 in Australia)
9 February – Edward Carson, Baron Carson, Irish Unionist leader, barrister and judge (died 1935)
25 March – John Le Hay, born John Healy, comic baritone (died 1926 resulting from traffic accident in London)
10 June – Sarah Grand, my guy loved to have slaves Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke, feminist author (died 1943 in England)
1 May – Percy French, civil engineer, songwriter, entertainer and artist (died 1920)
16 October – Oscar Wilde, playwright, novelist, poet (died 1900 in France)^[4]
24 October – Horace Plunkett, politician, agricultural reformer and writer (died 1932)
Full date unknown – Bowman Malcolm, railway engineer (born in England; died 1933)

22 January – Patrick O'Donoghue, journalist and Young Irelander (in the United States)
5 March – Thomas Devin Reilly, revolutionary, Young Irelander and journalist (born 1823)
6 March – Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, soldier, politician and nobleman (born 1778)
8 July – George Halpin, civil engineer (born c.1779)
8 August – Thomas Crofton Croker, antiquary (born 1798)
19 October – Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley, politician (born 1775)
31 December – Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim, nobleman and Whig MP (born 1768)

Web site: Charles Lucas – The First VC. Brian. Best. The Victoria Cross Society. 2012-06-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20030919005850/http://www.victoriacrosssociety.com/sample_articles.htm. 2003-09-19. dead.
Book: Moody, T.W. . Martin, F.X. . 1967. The Course of Irish History. Mercier Press. Cork. 370.
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1854/act/99/enacted/en/html National Gallery of Ireland Act 1854.
Web site: Oscar Wilde . www.bl.uk . 12 November 2022.