1846 in Ireland

1846 in Ireland

Events

*Potato blight affects the country putting farmers in distress.
*13 March - Ballinglass Incident: eviction of 300 tenants at the village of Ballinglass during the Irish Potato famine.
*Crumlin Road (HM Prison) in Belfast is opened with the arrival of the first inmates, who were forced to walk from Carrickfergus Prison in chains.

Births

*25 March - Michael Davitt, republican, nationalist agarian agitator, social campaigner, labour leader and Irish National Land League founder (d.1906).
*22 July - Alfred Perceval Graves, writer (d.1931).
*13 August - Otto Jaffe, twice elected as Irish Unionist Party Lord Mayor of Belfast (d.1929).
*10 September - John F. Finerty, U.S. Representative from Illinois (d.1908).
*18 September - Standish James O'Grady, author, journalist, historian (d.1928).
*23 August - Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, politician and barrister (d.1921).
*9 October - Frank Hugh O'Donnell, writer and nationalist politician (d.1916).
*"exact date unknown" - John O'Connor Power, Irish Nationalist politician and MP (d.1919).

Deaths

*October 12 - Lawrence Kavenagh, bushranger (b. c. 1805)
*"exact date unknown" - George Darley, poet, novelist and critic (b.1795).


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