1828 in Ireland

Events

*In the election in County Clare, Daniel O'Connell wins the seat, with the Catholic Association [cite book | last=Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds)| year=1967 |title=The Course of Irish History | publisher=The Mercier Press | location=Cork, Ireland | pages=p 254] .
*Belfast Botanic Gardens opens as the private Royal Belfast Botanical Gardens.

Births

*1 January - Richard Phelan, fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d.1904).
*28 January - William Gorman Wills, dramatist and painter (d.1891).
*21 March - William Davis Ardagh, lawyer, judge and politician in Canada (d.1893).
*March - Patrick Cleburne, major general in Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Franklin (d.1864).
*23 April - Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer (d.1892).
*9 May - Charles Kickham, Irish revolutionary, novelist, poet, journalist.
*11 May - William Walsh, U.S. Congressman in Maryland (d.1892).
*27 June - Cornelius Coughlan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (d.1915).
*27 June - Bryan O'Loghlen, politician in Australia, 13th Premier of Victoria (d.1905).
*26 August - William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin (d.1897).
*27 November - Samuel Mullen, bookseller (d.1890).
*31 December - Fitz James O'Brien, author (d.1862).

Full date unknown

*Thomas Newenham Deane, architect (d.1899).
*Canon James Goodman, Irish music collector (d.1896).
*John Holmes, surveyor and politician in Ontario (d.1879).
*Joshua Spencer Thompson, Liberal-Conservative politician in Canada (d.1880).
*John Tuigg, third Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d.1889).

Deaths

*9 January - Alexander Arbuthnot, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (b.1768).
*23 August - John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, politician and Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer (b.1740).

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