1856 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1856 in Ireland.

Events

1 January – M. H. Gill, printer to Dublin University, purchases the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, renaming it McGlashan & Gill, the predecessor of Gill & Macmillan.^[1]
29 September – the neoclassical Roman Catholic St Mel's cathedral, Longford, opens for worship.^[2]
22 October
- Coláiste Mhuire in Mullingar, County Westmeath opens its doors to students.
- Grand National Banquet for soldiers returned from the Crimean War in a warehouse in Custom House docks, Dublin.

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Births

14 February – Frank Harris, author, editor, journalist and publisher (died 1931).
20 March – John Lavery, artist (died 1941).
26 March – William Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1925 in New Zealand).
2 May – Matt Talbot, manual labourer and ascetic (died 1925).
26 July – George Bernard Shaw, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) (died 1950).
18 August – Walter Richard Pollock Hamilton, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Futtehabad, Afghanistan (died 1879).
17 November – Thomas Taggart, politician in the United States (died 1929).
28 November – Patrick O'Donnell, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (died 1927).
21 December
- Catherine Coll, mother of Éamon de Valera (died 1932)
- Sidney Royse Lysaght, writer (died 1941)
- Tomás Ó Criomhthain, writer and fisherman (died 1937).

Deaths

27 January – John Lalor, journalist and author (born 1814).
4 February – William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel, peer and MP (born 1801).
18 March – Henry Pottinger, soldier and colonial administrator, first Governor of Hong Kong (born 1789).
31 May – Yankee Sullivan, bare knuckle fighter and boxer (born 1811).
2 June – Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew, politician (born 1787).
8 December – Father Theobald Mathew, temperance reformer (born 1790).

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References

↑ Ó. Ciosáin, Niall; Hutton, Clare (2013). "The history of the book in Ireland". In Suarez, Michael F.; Woudhuysen, H. R. (eds.). The Book: A Global History. Oxford University Press. pp. 323–4. ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6.
↑ "St. Mel's Cathedral destroyed by fire". Longford Leader . 25 December 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2009-12-25.

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[1] Ó. Ciosáin, Niall; Hutton, Clare (2013). "The history of the book in Ireland". In Suarez, Michael F.; Woudhuysen, H. R. (eds.). The Book: A Global History. Oxford University Press. pp. 323–4. ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6.

[2] "St. Mel's Cathedral destroyed by fire". Longford Leader . 25 December 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2009-12-25.

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