1852 in Ireland

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Last updated October 14, 2023

Events

5 January – the troopship HMS Birkenhead boards British Army recruits at Queenstown. It has insufficient lifeboats.
26 February – the Birkenhead founders off the coast of South Africa. The soldiers stand to attention while women and children are placed in the lifeboats.
10 June
- The 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry on the Dublin-Belfast railway line is opened (construction began in 1849).^[1]
- The Irish Industrial Exhibition is opened in Cork.^[2]
1 October – Patent Law Amendment Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, merging the English, Scottish and Irish patent systems.
Eglington Pauper Lunatic Asylum opened in Cork.
End of the Great Famine.^[3] In the period it has lasted since 1845, one million people have emigrated from Ireland. The Irish now make up a quarter of the population of Liverpool, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore; and a half of Toronto.
Tenant farmer Michael O'Regan emigrates from County Tipperary to London. He will become paternal great-grandfather to Ronald Reagan, President of the United States.

Arts and literature

Edmund Falconer produces his first collection of poems Man’s Mission: A Pilgrimage to Glory’s Goal^[4] whilst working as a jobbing actor.

Sport

Curragh golf course is laid out, the first in Ireland.^[5]
Leinster Cricket Club is founded in Rathgar.^[6]

Births

25 January – Nevill Coghill, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Isandhlwana, South Africa (died 1879).
28 January – Louis Brennan, inventor (died 1932).
2 February – Lawrence E. McGann, Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois (died 1928).
24 February – George Moore, novelist, poet, art critic and dramatist (died 1933).
29 February – Frank Gavan Duffy, fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (died 1936).
15 March – Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist and folklorist (died 1932).
17 March – Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest, author and political activist (died 1913).
27 March – Jim Connell, political activist, writer of The Red Flag (died 1929).
9 April (bapt.) – Laurence Ginnell, nationalist, lawyer and politician, member of 1st Dáil (died 1923).
28 July – Barton McGuckin, tenor singer (died 1913).
30 September – Charles Villiers Stanford, composer (died 1924).
2 October – William O'Brien, nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher and author (died 1928).

Deaths

25 February – Thomas Moore, poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer (born 1779).
25 April – Arthur O'Connor, United Irishman and later general in Napoleon's army (born 1763).
8 May – Charles Rowan, joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police (b. c1782).
14 September – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman (born 1769).
Full date unknown
- Edward Bransfield, master in the Royal Navy (born 1785).
- William Thompson, naturalist (born 1805).
- Elliot Warburton, travel writer and novelist (born 1810).

Related Research Articles

The Great Famine, also known within Ireland as the Great Hunger or simply the Famine and outside Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis which subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. With the most severely affected areas in the west and south of Ireland, where the Irish language was dominant, the period was contemporaneously known in Irish as an Drochshaol, literally translated as "the bad life". The worst year of the period was 1847, which became known as "Black '47". During the Great Hunger, roughly 1 million people died and more than 1 million fled the country, causing the country's population to fall by 20–25% between 1841 and 1871. Between 1845 and 1855, at least 2.1 million people left Ireland, primarily on packet ships but also on steamboats and barques—one of the greatest exoduses from a single island in history.

The legacy of the Great Famine in Ireland followed a catastrophic period of Irish history between 1845 and 1852 during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 50 percent.

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References

↑ Patterson, T. G. (1975). "Railways in County Armagh, 1841–1957". Harvest Home: The Last Sheaf. Armagh County Museum. pp. 104–112. ISBN 0950478008 . Retrieved 20 March 2012.
↑ Pelle, Kimberley D. "Appendix D: Fairs Not Included". In Findling, John E. (ed.). Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 414–422. ISBN 9780786434169.
↑ Kinealy, Christine (1994). This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845–1852. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. pp. xvi–ii. ISBN 0-7171-4011-3.
↑ Samuel Halkett; John Laing (1999). A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain: Including the Works of Foreigners Written In, Or Translated Into the English Language. Adegi Graphics LLC. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-543-91060-8.
↑ "Welcome to The Curragh Golf Club". The Curragh Golf Club. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
↑ Siggins, Gerard (2005). Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792–2005. Stroud: Nonsuch Publishing Ltd. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-84588-512-0.

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[1] Patterson, T. G. (1975). "Railways in County Armagh, 1841–1957". Harvest Home: The Last Sheaf. Armagh County Museum. pp. 104–112. ISBN 0950478008 . Retrieved 20 March 2012.

[2] Pelle, Kimberley D. "Appendix D: Fairs Not Included". In Findling, John E. (ed.). Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 414–422. ISBN 9780786434169.

[3] Kinealy, Christine (1994). This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845–1852. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. pp. xvi–ii. ISBN 0-7171-4011-3.

[4] Samuel Halkett; John Laing (1999). A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain: Including the Works of Foreigners Written In, Or Translated Into the English Language. Adegi Graphics LLC. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-543-91060-8.

[5] "Welcome to The Curragh Golf Club". The Curragh Golf Club. Retrieved 29 June 2012.

[6] Siggins, Gerard (2005). Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792–2005. Stroud: Nonsuch Publishing Ltd. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-84588-512-0.

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