1862 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1862 in Ireland.

Events

• 1 January – a formal partnership between Edward Harland and Gustav Wilhelm Wolff establishes the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff.^{[1] [2]}
• 12 May – the Ulster Hall, a concert hall in Belfast, is opened.^[3]
• July – the Glasgow & Stranraer Steam Packet Company's enters service on the first Stranraer to Larne ferry service.^[4]
• 10 September – Eliza Lynch becomes de facto First Lady of Paraguay.
• 3 December – the Midland Great Western Railway extends from Longford to Sligo.^[5]

Undated

• The Dublin Fire Brigade is established under the Dublin Corporation Fire Brigades Act.

• Publication of The Leadbeater Papers, containing the first edition of the Annals of Ballitore by Mary Leadbeater (died 1826).

Arts and literature

• Julia Kavanagh publishes French Women of Letters.
• Charles Lever publishes the novel Barrington serially.

Births

• 2 April – Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (died 1930).
• 27 May – John Edward Campbell, mathematician (died 1924 in Oxford).
• 10 June – John de Robeck, admiral in the British Navy (died 1928).
• 11 June – Violet Florence Martin, author (died 1915).
• 14 June – John J. Glennon, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and Cardinal (died 1946).
• 21 September – Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet, peer, MP and Seanad member (died 1935).
• 14 October – Samuel Cunningham, politician and Irish Privy Councillor (died 1946).
• 6 November – Edward Bulfin, British general during World War I (died 1939).
• 15 December – Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (died 1896).
• Gertrude Kelly, surgeon and radical activist in New York (died 1934 in the United States).

Deaths

• 6 April – Fitz James O'Brien, author (born 1828).
• 21 May – John Drew, actor (born 1827).
• 18 July – John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) (born 1773).
• 30 July – Eugene O'Curry, scholar (born 1794).
• 30 November – James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (born 1784).

See also

• 1862 in Scotland
• 1862 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. Book: Moss, Michael. Hume, John R.. Shipbuilders to the World: 125 years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast 1861–1986. 1986. Blackstaff Press. Belfast. 0-85640-343-1.
3. Web site: Chris. Page. Revamped Ulster Hall unveiled. BBC News Online. 2009-03-06. 2012-03-20.
4. Web site: History. Port of Larne. 2014-04-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20190310020107/http://www.portoflarne.co.uk/about-us/history. 2019-03-10. dead.
5. News: 1862 – the year Sligo's first train rolled into town. The Sligo Champion. 2012-11-27. 2013-01-03.