1841 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1841 in Ireland
Events
- 6 June – 1841 census of Ireland: the first thorough census is completed and the population of Ireland is calculated to be just under 8.2 million.{{cite web|title=The Census of 1841|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ashorthistory/archive/intro181.shtml|publisher=BBC|work=A Short History of Ireland|access-date=2012-06-25}}
- 1 November – Daniel O'Connell is elected as the first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin in centuries.{{cite web|title=Daniel O'Connell, Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1841|url=http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Daniel_OConnell_Lord_Mayor_of_Dublin_1841|work=Multitext Project in Irish History|publisher=University College Cork|access-date=2012-06-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811055918/http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Daniel_OConnell_Lord_Mayor_of_Dublin_1841|archive-date=2014-08-11|url-status=dead}}
- 3 November – foundation stone for Saint Malachy's Church, Belfast is laid (completed in 1844).
- Ennis Friary refounded by Franciscans.
- The Cork Examiner newspaper is founded by John Francis Maguire in support of the Catholic emancipation and tenant rights work of Daniel O'Connell.{{cite book|title=Ireland in the Nineteenth Century: regional identity|editor1=Litvack, Leon |editor2=Hooper, Glenn |location=Dublin|publisher=Four Courts Press|year=2000|isbn=1851824782|page=38}}
- Ulster Canal completed.{{cite book|first=Ruth|last=Delany|title=A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways|location=Belfast|publisher=Appletree Press|year=1986|isbn=0-86281-200-3}}
- Anthony Trollope moves to Ireland as an official of the General Post Office, initially settling in Banagher.{{cite book|last=Trollope|first=Anthony|year=1883|title=An Autobiography|url=https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/trollope/anthony/autobiography/chapter3.html|chapter=Chapter 3|access-date=2010-07-02|archive-date=2010-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306011217/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/trollope/anthony/autobiography/chapter3.html|url-status=dead}}
Arts and literature
- Charles Lever's novel Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon is published in Dublin.
Births
- 12 February – Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (died 1926).
- 30 April – Charles Cooper Penrose-Fitzgerald, admiral in the Royal Navy (died 1921).
- 31 August – Patrick Egan, treasurer of the Irish Land League, fled to the United States, United States Minister to Chile (died 1919).
- 10 September – Max Arthur Macauliffe, British administrator, scholar and author (died 1913).
- 31 October – Abraham Dowdney, United States Representative from New York and officer in the Union army in the American Civil War (died 1886).
- 5 December – Marcus Daly, businessman in America (died 1900).
- 22 December – Thomas McCarthy Fennell, Fenian political prisoner transported to Western Australia (died 1914).
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Patrick Buckley, soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge in New Zealand (died 1896).
- :*Rosa Mulholland, novelist, short-story writer and poet (died 1921).
- :*Charles Anderson Read, journalist, novelist and anthologist (died 1878).
Deaths
- 7 January – James Arthur O'Connor, painter (born 1792).
- 17 March – Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager (born 1797).
- 18 April – Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, politician and statesman (born 1774).
- 21 July – Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, Royal Navy captain (born 1794).
- 24 August – Thomas Hopkirk, botanist (born 1785 in Scotland).
- 11 November – Catherine McAuley, nun (born 1778).