1864 In Ireland

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 lichen 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).

Births

*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).

See also

* 1864 in Scotland
* 1864 in Wales

References

1860s in Ireland
Years of the 19th century in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland

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