1864 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1864 in Ireland.

Events

1 January – civil registry of births, deaths and marriages replaces parish church registers.
30 January – opening of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.
May – Theobald Jones presents his Report on the progress made in collecting the Irish lichens to the Natural History Society of Dublin.
8 August – The first stage of the O'Connell Monument, Dublin's construction is achieved with the installation of a two-ton Dalkey granite foundation stone by Lord Mayor of Dublin Peter Paul McSwiney (a distant relative of O'Connell's).^[1]^[2]
December – Jane Wilde is found to have libelled Mary Travers; Travers is awarded only a nominal farthing in damages but Lady and the newly knighted Sir William Wilde have to pay substantial costs.
Foundation of the Munster Bank, later rescued as the Munster & Leinster Bank, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks.

Arts and literature

Sheridan Le Fanu publishes the Gothic locked room mystery-thriller Uncle Silas (serialized July–December in his Dublin University Magazine as "Maud Ruthyn and Uncle Silas"; published December as a three-volume novel by Richard Bentley in London).^[3]

Births

1 January – John Mahony, Kerry hurler (died 1943).
31 January – Matilda Cullen Knowles, lichenologist (died 1933).
13 February – Stephen Gwynn, journalist, writer, poet and Nationalist politician (died 1950).
22 February – Michael Donohoe, Democrat U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (died 1958).
4 March – Daniel Mannix, Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years (died 1963).
5 May – Henry Wilson, British Field Marshal and Conservative Party politician (killed by the Irish Republican Army 1922 in England).
11 May – Ethel Lilian Voynich, née Boole, novelist and composer (died 1960).
16 July – Joseph O'Mara, opera singer (died 1927).
1 September – Roger Casement, British diplomat, nationalist, poet and Irish revolutionary, executed at Pentonville Prison (died 1916).
19 October – Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, peer and soldier (died 1915).
11 November – John Meredith, Australian Army Brigadier General (died 1942).
22 November – Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet, Unionist MP and Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland 1925–1937 (died 1944).
9 December – Willoughby Hamilton, tennis player, Wimbledon Champion in 1890 (died 1943).
21 December – James Whiteside McCay, Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments (died 1930).
Full date unknown
- William Gerard Barry, painter (died 1941).
- Denis Grimes, Limerick hurler (died 1920).
- Michael McCarthy, nationalist anticlerical lawyer (died 1928).
- Moira O'Neill (Nesta Shakespear Higginson), poet (died 1955).
- J. Laurie Wallace, painter (died 1953).

Deaths

10 January – Nicholas Callan, priest and scientist (born 1799).
20 May – John George Bowes, businessman and political figure in Canada East (b. c.1812).
18 June – William Smith O'Brien, nationalist (born 1803).
4 July – Thomas Colley Grattan, writer (born 1792).
23 July – Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1824).
27 July – Joseph Patrick Haverty, painter (born 1794).
21 November – Charles McNally, Bishop of Clogher 1844–1864 (born 1787).
30 November – Patrick Cleburne, major general in Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Franklin (born 1828).
8 December – George Boole, mathematician (born 1815).
23 December – James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (born 1804).
William Guy Wall, painter (born 1792).

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References

↑ "History of Monuments - O'Connell Street Area" (PDF). Dublin City Council . Retrieved 2024-05-27.
↑ Quinn, James; Boylan, Sean. "McSwiney, Peter Paul". Dictionary of Irish Biography . Retrieved 27 May 2024.
↑ McCormack, W. J. (1997). Sheridan Le Fanu (3rd ed.). Stroud: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-1489-0.

Heron, Denis Caulfield (2007), Ireland in 1864, Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, retrieved 13 August 2014