1795 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1795 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George III

Events

• 5 June – the Royal College of St Patrick established at Maynooth by Act of Grattan's Parliament to provide university-level education for Roman Catholic ecclesiastical and lay students.
• 15 September – a group of workers felling timber on the estate of Lord Carysfort in County Wicklow discover gold, leading to the Wicklow gold rush. ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• 21 September
  • Battle of the Diamond, a violent confrontation between the Catholic Defenders and Protestants including Peep o' Day Boys, Orange Boys and local tenant farmers, takes place near Loughgall, County Armagh.
  • The Loyal Orange Institution (Orange Order) is formed in County Armagh following the Battle of the Diamond. ^[4]
• William Pitt, Prime Minister of Great Britain, replaces the popular and liberal Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Fitzwilliam, with Earl Camden, ^[5] an opponent of Catholic emancipation whose arrival in Dublin is greeted with riots.
• Society of the United Irishmen members including Theobald Wolfe Tone and Henry Joy McCracken meet at Cavehill to the north of Belfast.
• The town of Louisburgh, County Mayo, is established by Lord Altamount of Westport to house Catholic refugees fleeing sectarian conflict in the north of Ireland.
• The first Wexford bridge across the River Slaney in the town of Wexford, built by the American Lemuel Cox in wood, is completed. ^[6]
• National Botanic Gardens opened by the Royal Dublin Society.

Arts and literature

• William Drennan writes the ballad Erin. ^[7]

Births

• 5 May – James Haughton, social reformer and temperance activist (died 1873).
• 20 May – Francis Murphy, first Roman Catholic bishop of Adelaide, South Australia (died 1858).
• 18 July – Hugh Boyd M‘Neile, Anglican churchman (died 1879).
• 16 November – Lord Kingsborough, antiquarian (died 1837).
• Full date unknown – George Darley, poet, novelist and critic (died 1846).

Deaths

• 14 February – Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, peer (born 1724).
• March – Thomas Conway, soldier (born 1735), in England.
• 22 April – Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, poet (born 1715).
• 11 September – Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, landowner and politician (born 1726).

References

1. King, Anthony (2013-03-21). "The Wicklow gold rush". The Irish Times . Retrieved 2024-07-02.
2. Vines, Gail (2007-01-24). "Histories: The hunt for the Wicklow gold". New Scientist . Retrieved 2024-07-02.
3. McArdle 2011, p. 10.
4. "Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
5. "No. 13759". The London Gazette . 10 March 1795. p. 229.
6. "The Bridges of Wexford". Ask about Ireland. 2012-12-30. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
7. McBride, I. R. (2004). "Drennan, William (1754–1820)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8046 . Retrieved 2013-08-19.(subscription or UK public library membership required)

Sources

• McArdle, Peadar (2011). Gold Frenzy: The Story of Wicklow's Gold. Swinford: Albertine Kennedy Publishing. ISBN   0-906002-08-7.