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1842 In Ireland
Events from the year 1842 in Ireland. Events *15 October – ''The Nation'' newspaper is founded in Dublin. Births *6 February – Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile (died 1896). *10 February – Agnes Mary Clerke, astronomer and writer (died 1907). *9 May – William Hone, cricketer (died 1919). *23 August – Osborne Reynolds, engineer and prominent innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics (died 1912). *3 September – John Devoy, Fenian organiser and exile (died 1928 in the United States). Deaths *25 March – William Beatty, ship's surgeon on during the Battle of Trafalgar (born 1773). *11 April – John England, first Catholic Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina (born 1786). *8 June – Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, politician. (born 1776). *12 August – William Corbet, member of the United Irishmen, soldier, Commander-in-Chief to French forces in Greece (born 1779). *21 August – William Maginn, journalist and writer (born 1794). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nation (Irish Newspaper)
''The Nation'' was an Irish nationalist weekly newspaper, published in the 19th century. ''The Nation'' was printed first at 12 Trinity Street, Dublin from 15 October 1842 until 6 January 1844. The paper was afterwards published at 4 D'Olier Street from 13 July 1844, to 28 July 1848, when the issue for the following day was seized and the paper suppressed. It was published again in Middle Abbey Street on its revival in September 1849. Background The founders of ''The Nation'' were three young men – two Catholics and one Protestant – who, according to the historian of the newspaper T. F. O'Sullivan, were all "free from the slightest taint of bigotry, and were anxious to unite all creeds and classes for the country's welfare.".Young Ireland, T. F. O'Sullivan, The Kerryman Ltd. 1945 pg 6 They were Charles Gavan Duffy, its first editor; Thomas Davis, and John Blake Dillon. All three were members of Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association, which sought repeal of the 1800 Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). As part of Napoleon's plans to invade England, the French and Spanish fleets combined to take control of the English Channel and provide the Grande Armée safe passage. The allied fleet, under the command of the French admiral, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, sailed from the port of Cádiz in the south of Spain on 18 October 1805. They encountered the British fleet under Lord Nelson, recently assembled to meet this threat, in the Atlantic Ocean along the southwest coast of Spain, off Cape Trafalgar. Nelson was outnumbered, with 27 British ships of the line to 33 allied ships including the largest warship in either fleet, the Spanish ''Santísima Trinidad''. To address this imbalance, Nelson sailed his fleet directly at the allied ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1798 In Ireland
Events from the year 1798 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George III Events * March ** Great Britain's Irish militia arrest the leadership of the Society of United Irishmen marking the beginning of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. A number are arrested at the house of Oliver Bond on 12 March. ** Lord Castlereagh is appointed Acting Chief Secretary for Ireland. * 30 March – martial law is proclaimed in Ireland. * Spring – United Irishman and publisher Peter Finnerty is convicted and imprisoned for seditious libel. * April – the "dragooning of Ulster": Lieutenant-General Lake, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, issues a proclamation ordering the surrender of all arms by the civil population of Ulster, effectively disarming the United Irishmen. * 21 April – Patrick (or William) "Staker" Wallace of the United Irishmen is flogged at Ballinvreena for plotting the assassination of Captain Charles Silver Oliver. He is hanged either immediately afterwards or in early July at Kilfinane. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Banim
John Banim (3 April 1798 – 30 August 1842), was an Irish novelist, short story writer, dramatist, poet and essayist, sometimes called the "Scott of Ireland." He also studied art, working as a painter of miniatures and portraits, and as a drawing teacher, before dedicating himself to literature. Early life John Banim was born in Kilkenny, Ireland. His father was a farmer and shopkeeper.Flaherty, Matthew James. "John & Michael Banim." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 25 July 2021 At age four, his parents sent him to a local s where he learned the basics of |
1794 In Ireland
Events from the year 1794 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George III Events *1 January – Lagan Canal opened throughout from Belfast to Lough Neagh. *4 May – Dublin Society of United Irishmen suppressed. *29 June – physician and poet William Drennan, a leading figure in the Dublin Society of United Irishmen, is tried for seditious libel for circulating a pamphlet ''Address to the Volunteers'' in 1792; he is acquitted but withdraws from further direct political commitment. *November – Richard Lovell Edgeworth demonstrates a semaphore line from Donaghadee across the Irish Sea to Portpatrick in Scotland. *Establishment of Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills. *Mary Leadbeater publishes ''Extracts and Original Anecdotes for the Improvement of Youth'' anonymously in Dublin. Births *9 January – Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools (died 1861). *4 March – William Carleton, writer (died 1869). *23 Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Maginn
William Maginn (10 July 1794 – 21 August 1842) was an Irish journalist and writer. About Born at Cork he became a contributor to ''Blackwood's Magazine'', and after moving to London in 1824 became for a few months in 1826 the Paris correspondent to '' The Representative'', a paper started by John Murray, the publisher. When its short career was run, he helped to found in 1827 the ultra Tory ''Standard,'' a newspaper that he edited along with a fellow graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Stanley Lees Giffard; he also wrote for the more scandalous Sunday paper, ''The Age''. In 1830 he instigated and became one of the leading supporters of ''Fraser's Magazine''. His ''Homeric Ballads'', much praised by contemporary critics,E.g., Matthew Arnold, ''On Translating Homer''. were published in ''Fraser's'' between 1839 and 1842. In 1837, ''Bentley's Miscellany'' was launched, with Charles Dickens as editor, and Maginn wrote the prologue and contributed over the next several years a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1779 In Ireland
Events from the year 1779 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George III Events *Armed Volunteers demonstrate in Dublin for free trade between Ireland and England. This demand for amendment of the Navigation Acts is quickly granted by the British government. * Grand Canal opens to traffic between Dublin and Sallins. *Spike Island, County Cork, is acquired by the government to form part of the defences of Cork Harbour. *New Church of Ireland Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford, completed. Births *22 January – Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill, landowner and politician (died 1841). *February – Richard Carmichael, surgeon (died 1849). *30 March – Antoine Ó Raifteiri, "last of the wandering bards" (died 1835). *16 April – Patrick Kelly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (died 1829). *28 May – Thomas Moore, poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer (died 1852). *17 August – William Corbet, member of the United Irishmen, soldier, Commander-in-Chief of French forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Irishmen
The Society of United Irishmen was a sworn association in the Kingdom of Ireland formed in the wake of the French Revolution to secure "an equal representation of all the people" in a national government. Despairing of constitutional reform, in 1798 the United Irishmen instigated Irish Rebellion of 1798, a republican insurrection in defiance of British Crown forces and of Irish sectarianism, sectarian division. Their suppression was a prelude to the abolition of the Protestant Ascendancy Parliament of Ireland, Parliament in Dublin and to Ireland's incorporation in a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom with Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain. An attempt to revive the movement and renew the insurrection following the Acts of Union 1800, Acts of Union was Irish rebellion of 1803, defeated in 1803. Espousing principles they believed had been vindicated by American Revolutionary War, American independence and by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Corbet
William Corbet (17 August 1779 – 12 August 1842) was an Anglo-Irish soldier in the service of France. In September 1798 he accompanied Napper Tandy in an aborted French mission to Ireland in support of the United Irish insurrection. After two years of incarceration, he escaped from Ireland and served in the campaigns of Napoleon reaching the rank of colonel. In 1831, under the July Monarchy, he was employed in the French expedition to Greece. He returned to France in 1837, retiring with the rank of Major-General. Ireland and the 1798 Rebellion He was born in Ballythomas, County Cork as a branch of the Corbet family an Anglo-Irish Protestant family. In 1798, as a member of the United Irishmen, he was expelled from Trinity College Dublin with Robert Emmet and others for treasonable activities, and went instead to Paris. In September of the same year, he joined a French military force under Napper Tandy with the rank of Captain and sailed from Dunkirk with arms and ammuniti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1776 In Ireland
Events from the year 1776 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George III Events *3 February – proclamation imposing an embargo on export of provisions from Ireland to secure supplies for the British Army fighting in the American Revolutionary War. *4 April – act of the Parliament of Ireland to prevent "tumultuous risings", directed against the Whiteboys. *4 July – United States Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia. Eight of the signatories are Irish American, three ( Matthew Thornton, George Taylor and James Smith) having been born in Ireland. This night, Strabane-born John Dunlap prints copies at his shop in the city. Births *3 July – Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, politician. (died 1842). *1 August – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, MP, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America (died 1849). *11 September – Thomas Arbuthnot, British military officer (died 1849). *1 October – Augustus Warren Baldwin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton
Henry Brooke Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton PC (3 July 1776 – 8 June 1842), known as Sir Henry Parnell, Bt, from 1812 to 1841, was an Irish writer and Whig politician. He was a member of the Whig administrations headed by Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne of the 1830s and also published works on financial and penal questions as well as on civil engineering. He was a grand-uncle to the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell. Background and education Parnell was the second son of Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet, Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer, and Laetitia Charlotte, daughter of Sir Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet. His younger brother William Parnell-Hayes was the grandfather of Charles Stewart Parnell. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1801 he inherited the family estates in Queen's County on the death of his father, bypassing his disabled elder brother according to a special Act of Parliament passed in 1789. In 1812 he succeeded as fourth Baronet, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1786 In Ireland
Events from the year 1786 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George III Events *13 March – Construction begins in Dublin on the Four Courts Building, with the first stone laid by the British Viceroy for Ireland, the Duke of Rutland. * The Parliament of Ireland passes ''An Act for Promoting the Trade of Dublin, by rendering its Port and Harbour more commodious'', creating the Corporation for Preserving and Improving the Port of Dublin (the "Ballast Board"), predecessor of the Commissioners of Irish Lights. * The last reliably recorded wolf in Ireland is hunted down and killed near Mount Leinster, County Carlow, for killing sheep. Births *1 April – William Mulready, painter (died 1863). *7 May – John Cliffe Watts, military officer, architect in Australia (died 1873). *23 September – John England, first Catholic Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina (died 1842). *12 November – John Burke, genealogist (died 1848). * Eaton Stannard Barrett, poet and author (died 1820). Deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
