1822 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1822 in Ireland.

Events

22 April – The Albion, a Black Ball Line trans-Atlantic packet, is driven ashore at Old Head of Kinsale with the loss of 46 of the 54 aboard.^[1]^[2]
7 June – The Constitution; or, Cork Morning Post begins publication.
19 July – Percy Jocelyn, Anglican Bishop of Clogher, is caught in a compromising position with a young Grenadier Guardsman at a public house in London. He breaks bail and flees England. In October, an Irish ecclesiastical court deprives him of office.^[3]
21 September – HMS Confiance, a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop of 1813, is wrecked between Mizen Head and Three Castles Head near Crookhaven with the loss of all 100 aboard.^[4]
Public gas lighting in Belfast.^[5]
Mary Leadbeater's Cottage Biography, being a Collection of Lives of the Irish Peasantry is published.

Births

16 February – James Thomson, engineer and physicist (died 1892).
21 February – Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three times Chief Secretary for Ireland, Viceroy of India (assassinated 1872 in the Andaman Islands).
31 August – Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1896).
September – Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (died 1863).
2 October – James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (died 1900).
11 October – Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (died 1907).
November – John Divane, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1888).
4 December – Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (died 1904).
11 December – John Nicholson, military hero in India (died 1857).
Full date unknown
- James Byrne, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Jhansi, India (died 1872).
- Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (died 1903).
- Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (died 1876).

Deaths

15 February – Pierce Butler, soldier, planter, statesman, one of United States' Founding Fathers, represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate (born 1744).
25 March – Robert Blake, dentist, first State Dentist of Dublin (born 1772).
12 August – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna (born 1769).
John Bowden, ecclesiastical architect.

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References

↑ "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle . No. 16544. London. 1822-04-27.
↑ "Shipwreck Of The Albion Packet". The Times . No. 11668. London. 1822-10-12. p. 3.
↑ Geoghegan, Patrick M. (October 2009). "Jocelyn, Percy". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
↑ Gossett, William Patrick (1986). The Lost Ships of the Royal Navy, 1793–1900. London: Mansell. p. 100. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
↑ McCabe, Colum (Spring 1992). "History of the Town Gas Industry in Ireland 1823-1980". Dublin Historical Record. Old Dublin Society. 45 (1): 28–40. JSTOR 30100966.

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[1] "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle . No. 16544. London. 1822-04-27.

[2] "Shipwreck Of The Albion Packet". The Times . No. 11668. London. 1822-10-12. p. 3.

[3] Geoghegan, Patrick M. (October 2009). "Jocelyn, Percy". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 2024-03-16.

[4] Gossett, William Patrick (1986). The Lost Ships of the Royal Navy, 1793–1900. London: Mansell. p. 100. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.

[5] McCabe, Colum (Spring 1992). "History of the Town Gas Industry in Ireland 1823-1980". Dublin Historical Record. Old Dublin Society. 45 (1): 28–40. JSTOR 30100966.

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