1858 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1858 in Ireland.

Events

• 17 March – In Dublin, James Stephens founds the revolutionary organisation which becomes known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood.^{[1] [2]}
• Edward Harland, at this time general manager, buys the small shipyard on Queen's Island, Belfast, from his employer Robert Hickson in conjunction with Gustav Wilhelm Wolff.^[3]
• Ballinacourty lighthouse at Dungarvan harbour built.

Arts and literature

• First free public library in Ireland opens in Dundalk.

Births

• 11 January – Mildred Anne Butler, painter (died 1941).
• 13 February – James Murray Irwin, British Army doctor (died 1938).
• 6 March – Coslett Herbert Waddell, priest and botanist (died 1919).
• 11 March – Tom Clarke, republican (born in England; executed 1916).
• 2 May – Edith Anna Somerville, novelist (died 1949).
• 19 May – Mike Cleary, boxer (died 1893).
• 5 October – Thomas Cusack, Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois (died 1926).

Full date unknown

• Anne Marjorie Robinson, artist (died 1924).

Deaths

• 4 March – John Ryan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, killed in action (born 1823).
• 26 April – Francis Murphy, first Roman Catholic bishop of Adelaide, South Australia (born 1795).
• 22 July – Mary Aikenhead, founder of the Sisters of Charity (born 1787).
• 28 July – Alexander Wright, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (born 1826).
• 17 August – Robert Cane, doctor, member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation, Mayor of Kilkenny (born 1807).

Full date unknown

• John Hogan, sculptor (born 1800).

• Benjamin Lett, bomber and arsonist in America and Canada (born 1813).

• James Roche Verling, British Army surgeon, became personal surgeon to Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena (born 1787).

See also

• 1858 in Scotland
• 1858 in Wales

Notes and References

1. Book: Cronin, Seán. Seán Cronin. The McGarrity Papers. Anvil Books. Tralee. 1972. 11.
2. Book: Ryan, Desmond. The Fenian Chief: A Biography of James Stephens. Hely Thom. Dublin. 1967. 1.
3. 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.