1847 in Ireland
List of events
Events from the year 1847 in Ireland .
Events
Skibbereen 1847 by Cork artist James Mahony , commissioned by the Illustrated London News .
12 April – the Massachusetts Donation of 1847 arrives at Cork on USS Jamestown .
28 April – the brig Exmouth carrying emigrants from Derry bound for Quebec is wrecked off Islay with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.[5] [6]
May – typhus epidemic of 1847 among Irish emigrants arriving by ship in Canada .
15 May – death of political campaigner Daniel O'Connell , "The Emancipator", of cerebral softening in Genoa while on a pilgrimage to Rome at the age of 71.[1] His heart is buried in Sant'Agata dei Goti , at this time chapel of the Irish College in Rome , and his body in Glasnevin Cemetery , Dublin , beneath a round tower.
June – Poor Law Amendment Act.[1] From August, the permanent Poor Law becomes responsible for providing relief of the destitute.[2]
26 August – 1847 United Kingdom general election concludes with Repeal Association candidates receiving a majority of Irish votes, but the American Charles MacTavish 's election in Dundalk will be overturned on appeal.
Summer – extension of Courtown pier , the first application for such a structure of Alexander Mitchell 's screw-pile foundations.[7]
December – John Mitchel breaks away from The Nation .[1]
Robert Holmes publishes The Case of Ireland Stated , proposing repeal of the Acts of Union 1800 .
Arts and literature
March – Anthony Trollope 's first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran , largely written at Drumsna between September 1843 and June 1845 and with a contemporary Irish setting, is published in London.[8] [9]
Charles Lever 's novel The Knight of Gwynne, a tale of the time of the Union is published serially in London.
Publishers Simms & McIntyre of Belfast introduce their Parlour Library of fiction reprints.
Births
30 May – Alice Stopford Green , nationalist, historian and journalist (died 1929 ).
31 May – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie , shipbuilder and businessman (died 1924 ).
17 June – Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken , civil servant, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India (died 1932 ).
15 July – J. J. Clancy , Member of Parliament , barrister and journalist (born 1928 ).
28 August – Norman Garstin , artist (died 1926 ).
20 September – Michael Cusack , founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association (died 1906 ).
9 October – John Coleman , United States Marine , recipient of Medal of Honor for his actions in 1871 during the Korean Expedition (died 1897 ).
8 November – Bram Stoker , writer and author of Dracula (died 1912 ).
10 November – Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh , philanthropist and businessman (died 1927 ).
15 November – James O'Neill , actor, father of the American playwright Eugene O'Neill (died 1920 ).
12 December – John O'Kane Murray , physician and author (died 1885 ).
Full date unknown
Deaths
11 February – Andrew Clarke , soldier, Governor of Western Australia (born 1793 ).
February – Michael John Brenan , priest and ecclesiastical historian (born 1780 ).
April – Thomas Barnwall Martin , soldier, landowner and politician (born 1784 ).
15 May – Daniel O'Connell , politician, campaigner for Catholic Emancipation and Repeal of the Union (born 1775 ).
7 August – James Daly, 1st Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal , politician (born 1782 ).
10 September – Richard Henry Wilde , lawyer and Congressman in USA (born 1789 ).
14 September – Sir John Burke, 2nd Baronet , soldier and politician (born 1782 ).[10]
Full date unknown
See also
References
^ a b c d e f Moody, T.W.; Martin, F.X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History . Cork: Mercier Press. p. 376.
^ a b c Kinealy, Christine (1994). This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845–52 . Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-7171-1832-8 .
^ Debo, Angie (1935). The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic .
^ Hatton, Helen Elizabeth (1993). The Largest Amount of Good: Quaker Relief in Ireland, 1654–1921 . Montreal: McGill–Queen's Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-0959-7 .
^ "The Exmouth – a terrible tragedy on Islay" . Isle of Islay . 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-13 .
^ "The Exmouth shipwreck off the Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland" . My Secret Northern Ireland . Retrieved 2012-07-13 .
^ Lutenegger, Alan J. (2011). "Historical development of iron screw-pile foundations, 1836–1900". International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology . 81 . Newcomen Society : 108–28. doi :10.1179/175812109X12547332391989 . S2CID 109521534 .
^ Trollope, Anthony (1883). "Chapter 4" . An Autobiography . Archived from the original on 2010-04-04. Retrieved 2010-07-02 .
^ Terry, R. C. (1977). Anthony Trollope: The Artist in Hiding . London: Macmillan. pp. 175–200. ISBN 978-0333219232 .
^ Foster, Joseph (1881). The baronetage and knightage . Nichols and Sons. p. 89.