1820 In Ireland

Events from the year 1820 in Ireland.

Events

*30 January – Irish-born Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield in the ''Williams'' is the first person positively to identify Antarctica as a land mass.
*12 February – the ''East Indian'' and ''Fanny'' set sail from Cork with settlers for the Cape Colony.
*6 May – failure of Newport's Bank in Waterford.
*25 May – failure of Roche's Bank and stoppage of Leslie's Bank in Cork.
*3 June – the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne in Cork is largely destroyed by arson.
*8 July – act for lighting the city and suburbs of Dublin with gas.
*20 July – Saint Cronan's Boys' National School opens in Bray, County Wicklow, as the Bray Male School.
*December – Lough Allen Canal, giving through navigation between Carrick-on-Shannon and Lough Allen, opens.
*The Royal Dublin Society adopts its "Royal" prefix when the new king George IV of the United Kingdom becomes its patron.
*Suspension of construction of the Wellington Testimonial, Dublin, in Phoenix Park to the design of Robert Smirke.
*First steamship on the Irish Sea crossing from Dublin to Liverpool, the ''Waterloo'', introduced by George Langtry of Belfast.
*Frederick Bourne begins to create the village of Ashbourne, County Meath.
*Publication of James Hardiman's '' The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from the earliest period to the present time'' in Dublin.
* Denny Meats are founded.

Arts and literature

*Charles Maturin (anonymously) publishes ''Melmoth the Wanderer''.
*Regina Maria Roche publishes ''The Munster Cottage Boy: a Tale''.

Births

*19 February – John Tuigg, third Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (died 1889 in the United States).
*31 May – Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 to 1853 (died 1853).
*3 June – Thomas William Moffett, scholar, educationalist and president of Queen's College Galway (died 1908).
*4 June – John Kean, businessman and politician in Ontario (died 1892).
*2 August – John Tyndall, physicist (died 1893).
*6 October – James Travers, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Indore, India (died 1884).
*22 November – Katherine Plunket, botanical artist and longest-lived Irish person ever (died 1932).
*30 December – Mary Anne Sadlier, novelist (died 1903).
*;Full date unknown
*:* Thomas Bellew, Galway landowner and politician (died 1863).
*:* John F. Kennedy's great-grandfather was born in the village of Dunganstown in County Wexford.
*:* Johnston Drummond, early settler of Western Australia, botanical and zoological collector (died 1845).
*:*Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at Little Inkerman (died 1863).
*:*Patrick Mylott, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 in India (died 1878).
*:* Henry Hamilton O'Hara "Mad O'hara", "The Mad Squire of Craigbilly" (died 1875).
*:*Kivas Tully, architect (died 1905).

Deaths

*29 January – George III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1738).
*5 February – William Drennan, physician, poet, educationalist and co-founder of the Society of United Irishmen (born 1754).
*13 February – Leonard McNally, informant against members of the Society of United Irishmen (born 1752).
*20 March – Eaton Stannard Barrett, poet and author (born 1786).
*6 June – Henry Grattan, member of Irish House of Commons and campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament (born 1746).
*Undated – Anthony Daly, a leader of the Whiteboy movement, hanged for attempted murder.

References

{{Years in Ireland

Years of the 19th century in Ireland

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