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1863 In Ireland
Events from the year 1863 in Ireland. Events *2 March – the Ulster Railway, which began construction in 1839, reaches Clones. *10 March – riots in Cork, related to nationalist unrest. *21 August – American clipper ''Anglo Saxon'' westbound is captured and burned by Confederate privateer ''Florida'' off Old Head of Kinsale. *28 November – first edition of ''The Irish People''. Arts and literature *Belleek Pottery begins to produce Parian Ware. * Sheridan Le Fanu publishes ''The House by the Churchyard''. *Ellen Bridget O'Connell publishes ''Derrynane Abbey in 1832, and other Poems''. Births *1 February – George Carew, 4th Baron Carew (died 1926). *11 March – May Guinness, painter (died 1955). *17 March – P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of San Francisco (died 1933). *31 March – Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician (died 1961). *2 April – Mabel Cahill, tennis player. *9 April – Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulster Railway
The Ulster Railway was a railway company operating in Ulster, Ireland. The company was incorporated in 1836 and merged with two other railway companies in 1876 to form the Great Northern Railway (Ireland). History The Ulster Railway was authorised by an Act of the UK Parliament in 1836 and construction began in March 1837. The first of line, between and , were completed in August 1839 at a cost of £107,000. The line was extended in stages, opening to in 1841,Hajducki, 1974, map 9 in 1842,Hajducki, 1974, map 8 and in 1848. In 1836 a Railway Commission recommended that railways in Ireland be built to broad gauge. The Ulster Railway complied with this recommendation but the Dublin and Drogheda Railway (D&D) did not. In order for Dublin and Belfast to be linked without a break-of-gauge, in 1846 the UK Parliament passed an Act adopting a compromise gauge of for Ireland, to which the Ulster Railway's track was then re-laid. Extension of the Ulster Railway resumed, reachi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Guinness
May Guinness (11 March 1863 – 16 July 1955) was an Irish painter, noted as "the first practising artist to introduce a modernist sensibility into Irish art". Early life and education Mary Catherine or May Guinness was born in Rathfarnham, County Dublin on 11 March 1863. She was the third of the seven children of solicitor, Thomas Hosea Guinness and Mary Davis, the only daughter and heiress of Charles Davis of Coolmanna, County Carlow. Through her father, she was a descendant of Arthur Guinness. She was educated at home, by both French and German governesses, and attending Mrs Power's school, leaving to teach her younger siblings. This responsibility resulted in her not pursuing art until she was in her 30s. She travelled with Mildred Anne Butler in 1894 to Newlyn in Cornwall to study under Norman Garstin. Career Guinness was a member of the Water Colour Society of Ireland from 1892. She exhibited with the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1897, continuing to show with them until 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 In Ireland
Events from the year 1899 in Ireland. Events *14 January – Ocean liner RMS ''Oceanic'' is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast. *4 March – the first issue of Arthur Griffith and William Rooney's nationalist newspaper, ''The United Irishman'', is published. *6 September – the foundation stone of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, is laid by the Countess of Shaftesbury. *11 October – the Second Boer War begins in South Africa. Major John MacBride raises the Irish Transvaal Brigade to aid the Boers. Nationalist Member of Parliament Michael Davitt withdraws from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in protest at the war. Arts and literature * 8 May – the Irish Literary Theatre, founded by W. B. Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn, stages its first performance, a version of Yeats' verse drama ''The Countess Cathleen'', at the Antient Concert Rooms in Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. * Somerville and Ross publish their first collection of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene O'Growney
Eugene O'Growney ( ga, Eoghan Ó Gramhnaigh; born 25 August 1863 at Ballyfallon, Athboy, County Meath, died 18 October 1899 in Los Angeles, California), was an Irish priest and scholar, and a key figure in the Gaelic revival of the late 19th century. Early life and education O'Growney was born near Athboy in County Meath, where the Irish language was no longer widely used and neither of his parents spoke it. He first became interested in the language at school in St. Finian's College and later again when he chanced upon Irish lessons in the nationalist newspaper ''Young Ireland''. He had help at first from a few old people who spoke the language, and while at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, where he continued his studies for the priesthood from the year 1882, he spent his holidays in Irish-speaking areas in the north, west and south. He got to know the Aran Islands and wrote about them in the bilingual ''Gaelic Journal'' (''Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge''), which he was later to edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 In Ireland
Events from the year 1936 in Ireland. Incumbents * Governor-General: Domhnall Ua Buachalla (until 11 December) * President of the Executive Council: Éamon de Valera ( FF) Events *9 February – Brian de Valera, third son of Éamon de Valera, dies in a riding accident, aged 21. *5 March – five hundred delegates attend the Fine Gael Árd-Feis in Dublin. W. T. Cosgrave is once again nominated as its president. *4 April – a dispute between two unions over who makes coffins results in the coffin of an abandoned infant being turned away from Glasnevin Cemetery. *27 May – Aer Lingus makes its first flight. The five-seater plane, ''Iolar,'' travels from Baldonnel Aerodrome to Bristol. *28 May – the Dáil passes a motion abolishing the Senate of the Irish Free State. *20 June – the Irish Republican Army is (again) declared an illegal organisation by the government. *6 September – the new Roman Catholic Christ the King Cathedral, Mullingar, is dedicated. *20 November – Gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Fyodorovna Of Hesse
german: Alix Viktoria Helene Luise Beatrixrussian: Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova , house = Hesse-Darmstadt , father = Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine , mother = Princess Alice of the United Kingdom , birth_name = Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine , birth_date = 1872 , birth_place = New Palace, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire , death_date = , death_place = Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, Russian SFSR , burial_date = 17 July 1998 , burial_place = Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation , signature = Alexandra Feodorovna Signature.svg , religion = Russian Orthodox ''prev.'' Lutheranism Alexandra Feodorovna ( – 17 July 1918), Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine at birth, was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Emperor Nicholas II from their marriage on until his forced abdication on . A favourite granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, she was, like her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas II Of Russia
Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. During his reign, Nicholas gave support to the economic and political reforms promoted by his prime ministers, Sergei Witte and Pyotr Stolypin. He advocated modernization based on foreign loans and close ties with France, but resisted giving the new parliament (the Duma) major roles. Ultimately, progress was undermined by Nicholas's commitment to autocratic rule, strong aristocratic opposition and defeats sustained by the Russian military in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. By March 1917, public support for Nicholas had collapsed and he was forced to abdicate the throne, thereby ending the Romanov dynasty's 304-year rule of Russia (16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretta Eagar
Margaretta (or Margaret) Alexandra Eagar (12 August 1863 — 8 August 1936), was an Irishwoman who served as a nanny to the four daughters of Emperor and Empress Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, the Grand Duchesses Olga; Tatiana; Maria; and Anastasia—known collectively as OTMA—from 1898 to 1904. In 1906, she wrote a memoir entitled ''Six Years at the Russian Court'' about her time with the family. Early life Eagar was born in Limerick, Ireland on 12 August 1863. She was one of ten children born to a Protestant couple, Francis McGillycuddy Eagar and Frances Margaret Holden. She was trained as a medical nurse in Belfast and worked at one point as matron of an orphanage.Zeepvat, Charlotte, ''From Cradle to Crown: British Nannies and Governesses at the World's Royal Courts'' Time at Court Eagar was appointed nurse to the daughters of Nicholas II in 1898 and remained with them until 1904. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, an aunt of the girls later recalled E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 In Ireland
Events from the year 1951 in Ireland. Incumbents * President: Seán T. O'Kelly * Taoiseach: ** John A. Costello ( FG) (until 13 June 1951) ** Éamon de Valera ( FF) (from 13 June 1951) * Tánaiste: ** William Norton ( Lab) (until 13 June 1951) ** Seán Lemass ( FF) (from 13 June 1951) * Minister for Finance: ** Patrick McGilligan ( FG) (until 13 June 1951) ** Seán MacEntee ( FF) (from 13 June 1951) * Chief Justice: Conor Maguire * Dáil: ** 13th (until 7 May 1951) ** 14th (from 13 June 1951) * Seanad: ** 6th (until 25 July 1951) ** 7th (from 14 August 1951) Events *2 February – Éamon de Valera visited Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924. *11 April – Minister for Health Noel Browne resigned and his Mother and Child Scheme was overturned. *19 April – The Attorney General for Northern Ireland, Ed Warnock, referring to the Noel Browne's resignation, said that ''Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth.'' *24 May – Gardaí exchanged shots with two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Henry de Vere Stacpoole (9 April 1863 – 12 April 1951) was an Irish author. His best-known work is the 1908 romance novel '' The Blue Lagoon'', which has been adapted into multiple films. He published using his own name and sometimes the pseudonym Tyler de Saix. Biography He was born in Kingstown—today's Dún Laoghaire—in Taney, near Dublin, on April 9, 1863; He was the last son of the Reverend William Church Stacpoole, theologian and principal of Kingstown School, and Charlotte Augusta (née Mountjoy). He had three older sisters: the eldest was Florence Stacpoole, who wrote books and pamphlets on health and medicine. Henry attributed his love for nature which characterized his entire existence to the influence of his mother, who was of Irish origin but had spent her childhood until the age of twelve in the wildest and most wooded regions of Canada until she became a widow and decided to return to Ireland. Reverend William died prematurely in 1870 and the mother raised h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Cahill
Mabel Esmonde Cahill (2 April 1863 – 2 February 1905) was an Irish female tennis player, active in the late 19th century, and was the first foreign woman to win a major tennis tournament when she won the 1891 US National Championships. Early life and family Mabel Cahill was born on 2 April 1863 in the family home of Ballyragget House, Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, the twelfth child of thirteen. She had 5 sisters and 7 brothers. Being part of this society resulted in having social events held by the upper class. In this case, tennis parties. During this time, it was quite uncommon for women to obtain a secondary level school degree; however, it has been recorded that Mabel attended Roscrea School with two of her brothers, a fee paying school. There is strong evidence to suggest that Mabel and two of her sisters enrolled in Sacred Heart Convent Secondary School. After school, Mabel moved from her family town of Ballyraggett to the city of Dublin in the year of 1886. where she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 In Ireland
Events in the year 1961 in Ireland. Incumbents * President: Éamon de Valera * Taoiseach: Seán Lemass ( FF) * Tánaiste: Seán MacEntee ( FF) * Minister for Finance: James Ryan ( FF) * Chief Justice: ** Conor Maguire (until 11 June 1961) **Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (from 16 June 1961) * Dáil: **16th (until 8 September 1961) **17th (from 11 October 1961) * Seanad: **9th (until 1 September 1961) **10th (from 14 December 1961) Events * 6 January – Lieutenant-General Seán Mac Eoin left Dublin for to the Congo. He was taking up his new post as General Commanding Officer of the United Nations. * 20 January – John F. Kennedy became President of the United States, the first of Irish-Catholic descent. * 27 January – Laid-up tanker ''Trigonosemus'' broke free from her moorings during a gale in Lough Swilly. * 9 April – The national census showed that County Cork's population had reached an all-time low, with just 330,000 (in the late 1950s it was 336,000). * 10 June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
