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1749 In Ireland
Events from the year 1749 in Ireland. Incumbent * Monarch: George II Events *3 June – radical apothecary Charles Lucas begins publication of ''The Censor, or Citizens' Journal'' in Dublin. *August–September – Charles Wesley makes his second visit to Ireland. *16 October – the Irish House of Commons threatens Charles Lucas with prosecution and he is forced to flee. *James Simon's An essay towards an historical account of Irish coins' is published in Dublin. Births *22 January – John Barclay, soldier, politician, jurist and businessman in America (died 1824) *July – Jocelyn Deane, politician (died 1780) * Robert Barber, quartermaster on HMS ''Adventure'' during the second voyage of James Cook (died 1783) * Thomas Burke, artist (died 1815) * William Richardson, landowner and politician (died 1822) * Edward Smyth, sculptor (died 1812) *James Whitelaw, historian, writer, statistician and philanthropist (died 1813) *Approximate date – Brian Merriman, Irish langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Monarch
Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ** Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state * Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland * Irish people, people of Irish ethnicity, people born in Ireland and people who hold Irish citizenship Places * Irish Creek (Kansas), a stream in Kansas * Irish Creek (South Dakota), a stream in South Dakota * Irish Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota * Irish Sea, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain People * Irish (surname), a list of people * William Irish, pseudonym of American writer Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) * Irish Bob Murphy, Irish-American boxer Edwin Lee Conarty (1922–1961) * Irish McCal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Richardson (1749–1822)
William Richardson (1749 – 23 March 1822) was an Irish landowner and Member of Parliament. He was the son of William Richardson (1710–1758) of Rich Hill, County Armagh, Ireland and succeeded him to the Richhill estate when only a minor. He was the great-nephew of another William Richardson, who was Member of Parliament for County Armagh at the time of the Williamite War in Ireland. He was elected High Sheriff of Armagh in 1777 and sat in the Irish House of Commons for County Armagh, between 1783 and 1797. In 1807 he was elected to sit for County Armagh in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, serving until 1820. In 1775 Richardson married Dorothea ("Dolly") Monroe (b. 1754), a daughter of Henry Monroe of Roes Hall, Tullylish. She was a noted beauty who while staying in Dublin with her aunt Frances, Lady Loftus, had been courted by Henry Grattan, Sir Hercules Langrishe, Francis Andrews, Provost of Trinity College, and the recently widowed Viceroy Lord Townshend. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanged
Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. Hanging as method of execution is unknown, as method of suicide from 1325. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain "hanging". Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since medieval times, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging was in Homer's ''Odyssey'' (Book XXII). In this specialised meaning of the common word ''hang'', the past and past participle is ''hanged'' instead of ''hung''. Hanging is a common method of suicide in which a person applies a ligature to the neck and brings about unconsciousness and then death by suspension or partial suspension. Methods of judicial hanging Ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1701 In Ireland
Events from the year 1701 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: William III Events * March 14 – all illegal cargoes of grain brought from Ireland to the west of Scotland are ordered to be sunk. * June 24 – the Act of Settlement 1701, passed by the Parliament of England, becomes law. Sophia of Hanover and her Protestant descendants are next in line to the throne following Anne, the heir apparent to her brother-in-law King William III, ensuring that no Catholic will inherit the throne. * July 1 – an equestrian statue of King William III by Grinling Gibbons is unveiled by Dublin Corporation on College Green on the 11th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. * September 18 – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, sworn as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (appointed 1700). Arts and literature * Marsh's Library in Dublin is established by Narcissus Marsh (Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)) as the first public library in Ireland (architect: Sir William Robinson) with refugee French Hug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Concanen
Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749) was a writer, poet and lawyer born in Ireland. Life Concanen studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. He also wrote for newspapers including the ''London Journal'' and ''The Speculatist''. He published a volume of poems, some of which were original works and some translations. He wrote a dramatic comedy, '' Wexford Wells'', staged at Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre. A collection of his essays from ''The Speculatist'' was published in 1732. His skills attracted the attention of the Whig statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In June 1732 the Duke appointed him attorney-general of Jamaica.James Sambrook, 'Concanen, Matthew (1701–1749)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 He held the post for over sixteen years. While in Jamaica, he married the daughter of a local planter. After his t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1703 In Ireland
Events from the year 1703 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: Anne Events *June 11 – Charles Hickman is consecrated as Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry. *September 11 – a privateering expedition comprising the ships ''St George'' and ''Cinque Ports'' commanded by William Dampier leaves Kinsale for South America. *Parliament of Ireland assembles, the first under Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and the first for five years. *Popery Act (An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery), enacted by the Parliament of Ireland, reintroduces gavelkind: when a Roman Catholic dies, his estate is to be divided equally among his sons (legitimate or otherwise) if they retain their Catholic faith. * Treason Act (Ireland) 1703, enacted by the Parliament of Ireland, enforces the Protestant line of succession to the British throne. *Sir Robert Doyne is appointed as Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. *The Parliament of Ireland investigates the possibility of improving navigation on the rivers Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ussher (1703–1749)
John Ussher (1703 – 3 January 1749) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He represented Dungarvan (Parliament of Ireland constituency), Dungarvan from 1747 to 1749. His uncle John Ussher (died 1741), John Ussher, nephew Sir Richard Musgrave, 1st Baronet, of Tourin, Richard Musgrave and first cousins Beverley Ussher (MP), Beverley Ussher and St George St George, 1st Baron St George, St George Ussher also served in the Irish House of Commons. References * http://thepeerage.com/p33481.htm#i334801 * https://web.archive.org/web/20090601105535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm 1703 births 1749 deaths Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Waterford constituencies {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1805 In Ireland
This is a list of events from the year 1805 in Ireland Events *August – rebel leader Michael Dwyer, held without sentence in Kilmainham Gaol, is transported to Sydney (Australia), where he lands as a free settler in February 1806. *21 October – Battle of Trafalgar: a British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Almost 4,000 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Ireland. Publications * Mary Tighe's poem ''Psyche, or the Legend of Love'' Births *2 January – John Hogan, businessman and United States Representative from Missouri (died 1892). *5 April – Samuel Forde, painter from Cork (died 1828). *4 August – William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1865). *;Full date unknown *:* Jon Riley, deserter from United States Army, a founder of the San Patricios (died 1850). *:*Anthony Coningham Sterling, British Army officer and historian (died 1871). *:* Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century. Irish is still spoken as a first language in a small number of areas of certain counties such as Cork, Donegal, Galway, and Kerry, as well as smaller areas of counties Mayo, Meath, and Waterford. It is also spoken by a larger group of habitual but non-traditional speakers, mostly in urban areas where the majority are second-language speakers. Daily users in Ireland outside the education system number around 73,000 (1.5%), and the total number of persons (aged 3 and over) who claimed they could speak Irish in April 2016 was 1,761,420, representing 39.8% of respondents. For most of recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Merriman
Brian Merriman or in Irish Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre (c. 1747 – 27 July 1805) was an Irish language bard, farmer, and hedge school teacher from rural County Clare. His single surviving work of substance, the 1000-line long Dream vision poem (''The Midnight Court''), describes a supernatural trial in which the women of Ireland are suing the men for refusing to marry and father children and is often compared to the works of François Rabelais. ''Cúirt an Mheán Oíche'' is widely regarded as the greatest work of comic or satirical verse in the history of Irish poetry. Merriman's life Merriman in oral accounts collected after his death was said to have been born illegitimately in Clondagad or Ennistymon, County Clare. His father is said to have been either a Roman Catholic priest or an Anglo-Irish landlord. His mother was surnamed Quilkeen. Shortly after his birth, Merriman's mother married a stonemason who was working on the walls of the Deerpark estate in Ennistymon. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1813 In Ireland
Events from the year 1813 in Ireland. Events *26 July – Battle of Garvagh, County Londonderry: Four hundred Catholic Ribbonmen attempt to destroy a tavern in Garvagh where the Orange Lodge meet and are repelled by Protestants with muskets. This was commemorated in the song "The Battle of Garvagh". *10 September – the largest meteorite ever to fall on the British Isles lands at Adare, County Limerick. Now held in the Limerick Museum Arts and literature *"''Poetical Attempts'' by Hugh Porter, a County of Down weaver" published in Belfast. *The Patron, or The Festival of Saint Kevin at the Seven Churches, Glendalough' painted by Joseph Peacock. Births *6 January – Charles Lanyon, architect (born in England; died 1889). *3 February – Thomas Mellon, entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge founder of Mellon Bank (died 1908). *2 June – Daniel Pollen, politician, ninth Premier of New Zealand (died 1876). *7 June – Sir Thomas Burke, 3rd Baronet, landowner and politician (died 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Whitelaw
The Rev. James Whitelaw BA, MRIA (1749 – 4 February 1813) was an Irish historian, writer, statistician, Anglican priest and philanthropist. Life He was born in County Leitrim and educated at Trinity College Dublin. He was elected a Scholar in 1769, and graduated in 1771 with a BA. He was ordained in the Church of Ireland and became rector of St. James and then St. Catherine's in Thomas St. in Dublin. He carried out a great deal of work on behalf of the poor, including establishing the Erasmus Smith Free School on the Coombe and other institutions. In 1798 he carried out a census of the city of Dublin (a difficult undertaking at the time on account of the 1798 Rising). Epidemic diseases were then frequent in Dublin, but, undeterred by the fear of infection, he personally inspected nearly every house in the city and questioned nearly every inhabitant. Hitherto the extent of the population had been only vaguely conjectured - he counted a total population of 182,370. He publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
