1849 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1849 in Ireland.
Events
- 30–31 March – Doolough Tragedy: At least 16 died when hundreds of the destitute and starving were forced to make a fatiguing journey on foot to receive outdoor relief in County Mayo.{{cite book|title=Tales of the West of Ireland|last=Horgan|first=Gertrude M.|year=1967|publisher=Dufour Editions|page=39|isbn=9780851055022|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQQ0AAAAMAAJ&q=Doo+lough|access-date=2012-02-10}}
- 21 April – Great Famine: 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse died over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high. This year's potato crop again failed and there were renewed outbreaks of cholera.{{cite book|first=David|last=Ross|year=2002|title=Ireland: History of a Nation|edition=New|location=New Lanark|publisher=Geddes & Grosset|isbn=1842051644|page=[https://archive.org/details/irelandhistoryof0000ross/page/313 313]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/irelandhistoryof0000ross/page/313}}
- 12 July – Dolly's Brae conflict: Up to 1,400 armed Orangemen marched from Rathfriland to Tollymore Park near Castlewellan, County Down. When 1,000 armed Ribbonmen gathered, shots were fired, Catholic homes were burnt and about eighty Catholics killed.{{cite web|title=Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events|work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm|access-date=28 January 2010}}
- 16 July – The Donaghadee to Portpatrick packet service was withdrawn.{{cite book|first=George|last=Ayres|title=History of the Mail Routes to Ireland until 1850|page=22}}
- 2–12 August – Queen Victoria visited Cork, Dublin, and Belfast,{{cite web|title=Queen Victoria in Ireland, August 1849|first=Sean|last=Connolly|url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/irishhistorylive/IrishHistoryResources/ArticlesandLectures/QueenVictoriainIrelandAugust1849/|work=Irish History Live|publisher=Queen's University Belfast|year=2008|access-date=2012-08-05}} landing on 3 August at Cove, which was renamed Queenstown in her honour, and departing from Kingstown. She officially opened Queen's Bridge in Belfast.
- 18 October – The Great Southern and Western Railway opened to Cork.{{cite web|title=Steaming into the Future|url=http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography/transport/0-Transport/steaming-into-the-future/|work=Ask about Ireland|access-date=2013-01-05}}{{cite journal|title=The Opening of the Mallow-Cork Railway 18th October 1849|first=Kevin|last=Myers|journal=Mallow Field Club Journal|volume=17|year=1999}}
- Construction began on the 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry, on the Dublin-Belfast railway line (opened in 1852).
- George Boole was appointed as first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bcri.ucc.ie/ |title=Boole Centre for Research in Informatics |access-date=15 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816105620/http://www.bcri.ucc.ie/ |archive-date=16 August 2019 |url-status=dead }}
- William Thompson began publication (in London) of The Natural History of Ireland, with the first volume on birds.
Births
- 31 January – Robert James McMordie, solicitor, politician and Lord Mayor of Belfast (died 1914).
- 12 February – John Edward Robinson, Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (died 1922).
- 18 May – John Clark, boxer (died 1922).
- 4 July – John Stanislaus Joyce, businessman, civil servant, and father of the writer James Joyce (died 1931).{{cite web
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- 9 July – Robert McCall, lawyer (died 1934).
- 1 August – William Larminie, poet and folklorist (died 1900).
- 16 August – James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington, businessman and philanthropist (died 1935).
- 24 October – Nugent Everard, soldier, Seanad member (died 1929).
- 19 November – James Mason, chess player and writer (died 1905).
- 12 December – Peter F. Collier, publisher (died 1909)
- Charles James O'Donnell, colonial administrator and MP (died 1934).
Deaths
- 21 January – Anthony Manahan, businessman and politician in Upper Canada (born 1794).
- 26 January – Thomas Arbuthnot, British military officer (born 1776).
- 7 March – Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry, Whig politician (born 1774).
- 27 March – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, MP, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America (born 1776).
- 22 May – Maria Edgeworth, novelist (born 1767).
- 28 May – Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist (born 1797).
- 20 June – James Clarence Mangan, poet (born 1803) (cholera).
- September – Daniel Robertson, architect and garden designer (born c. 1770 in British North America).
- 27 December – James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer (born 1807).
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