1861 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1861 in Ireland.

Events

• 8 - 10 April – John George Adair of Glenveagh Castle evicts tenants at Derryveagh in County Donegal.^{[1] [2]}
• 18 June – completion and official inauguration of the Wellington Monument, Dublin, in Phoenix Park, built to the design of Sir Robert Smirke (begun 1817).^[1]
• 21 - 30 August – Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, visit Ireland.^[1] They visit the Curragh Camp where Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, serving with the Grenadier Guards, has taken the actress Nellie Clifden as his first lover.^[3]
• 24 August – Mater Misericordiae Hospital is opened in Dublin by the Sisters of Mercy (architect: John Bourke).^[1]
• 17 September – the, with a badly damaged rudder, anchors in Cork Harbour for temporary repairs.
• Reconstruction of Fort Camden as part of the Cork Harbour defences begins.
• Irish Famine (1861)

Arts and literature

• July – Sheridan Le Fanu becomes editor and proprietor of the Dublin University Magazine.^[4] From October he begins serialization of his novel The House by the Churchyard in it.

Sport

• Malahide Cricket Club founded.

Births

• 23 January – Katharine Tynan, novelist and poet (died 1931).
• 6 February – George Tyrrell, expelled Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (died 1909).
• 19 March – Joseph MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (died 1945).^[5]
• 15 April – William Hoey Kearney Redmond, nationalist politician, barrister, brother of John Redmond, killed in Battle of Messines (died 1917).
• 21 June – Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer (died 1881).
• 16 October – J. B. Bury, historian, classical scholar and philologist (died 1927).
• 3 November – Thomas O'Brien Butler, composer (died 1915 in the sinking of RMS Lusitania).
• 5 November – Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet, cricketer (died 1948).

Full date unknown

• Frank Duffy, labour leader in America (died 1955).

• Nathaniel Hill, artist (died 1934).

• Leonard Greenham Star Molloy, soldier, doctor, M.P. (died 1937)

Deaths

• 13 May – William Henry Fitton, geologist (born 1780).
• 19 May – Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools (born 1794).
• 27 June – Robert O'Hara Burke, explorer of Australia (born 1821).
• 11 August – Catherine Hayes, opera diva (born 1818).
• 10 December – John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer (born 1806).

See also

• 1861 in Scotland
• 1861 in Wales

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Web site: Owners & Evictions . Glenveagh National Park . 2013-01-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091021163303/http://geocities.com/glenveaghnationalpark/owners.html . October 21, 2009 .
3. Book: Hibbert, Christopher. Christopher Hibbert. 2000. Queen Victoria: A Personal History. London. HarperCollins. 0-00-638843-4.
4. McCormack, W. J. (1997). Sheridan Le Fanu. Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. pp. 198–199.
5. Web site: MultiText – Joseph Macroy . 2007-04-14 . https://archive.today/20120710082352/http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Joseph_MacRory/ . 2012-07-10 . dead .