1826 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1826 in Ireland.

Events

• 5 January – Irish currency assimilated to that of Great Britain under terms of the Currency Act 1825. ^[1]
• 12 July – in the United Kingdom General Election, four counties elect supporters of Catholic Emancipation. ^[2]
• The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act is passed. ^[3]
• First life-boat stationed in Ireland by the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, at Arklow. ^[4]

Arts and literature

• October – Tyrone Power gets his break as a principal Irish character actor at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London. ^[5]

Births

• March
  • James P. Boyd, businessman and politician in Ontario (died 1890).
  • John Farrell, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade (died 1865).
• 13 August – Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons, physician and politician (died 1886).
• 4 October – Richard Smyth, Presbyterian minister, academic and politician (died 1878).
• 2 November – Henry John Stephen Smith, mathematician (died 1883).
• 14 November – Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin, jurist, politician, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (died 1901).

  Full date unknown

  • Robert Cain, brewer and businessman (died 1907).
  • Morgan Crofton, mathematician (died 1915).
  • Denis Dempsey, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1896).
  • Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action (died 1863).
  • John Lucas, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1861 in New Zealand (died 1892).
  • Patrick McHale, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1866).
  • Alexander Wright, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1858).

Deaths

• 27 June – Mary Leadbeater, writer (born 1758).
• 25 September – Judge Fulton, judge, surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia (born 1739).
• 9 October – Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (born 1762).

See also

• 1826 in Scotland
• 1826 in Wales

References

1. Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-821744-2.
2. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 252.
3. Lyall, Andrew (2000). Land Law in Ireland (2nd ed.). Dublin: Roundhall Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN   1-85800-199-4.
4. Dwane, Mairéad (Autumn 2010). "Gael Force". The Lifeboat. RNLI (593): 6.
5. MacDonagh, Michael (2004). "Power, (William Grattan) Tyrone (1797–1841)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22671 . Retrieved 2012-11-12.(subscription or UK public library membership required)