- 1839 in Ireland
Events
*The Ulster Railway began construction of a railway line between
Belfast andLisburn .
*Marquess of Donegall lays the foundation stone for the Palm House inBelfast Botanic Gardens .Births
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6 January -Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran ,Anglo-Irish peer and diplomat (d.1901).
*16 March -John Butler Yeats , artist and father ofWilliam Butler Yeats andJack Butler Yeats (d.1922).
*27 March -John Ballance , 14th Premier of New Zealand (d.1893).
*1 April -St. Clair Augustine Mulholland ,American Civil War officer (d.1910).
*27 April -Charles Frederick Houghton , soldier and politician inCanada (d.1898).
*10 May -Thomas Joseph Carr , secondRoman Catholic Archbishop ofMelbourne ,Australia (d.1917).
*11 July -William John Hennessy , artist (d.1917).
*5 September -Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet , Liberal Party MP (d.1909).
*4 November -Thomas MacDonald Patterson , politician and newspaper publisher in the USA (d.1916).
*24 November -James William Adams , recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 atKilla Kazi ,Afghanistan (d.1903).
*30 December -John Todhunter , poet and playwright (d.1916).Full date unknown
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William Lundon ,Irish Parliamentary Party MP (d.1909).
*John Pentland Mahaffy , classicist (d.1919).
*Thomas Murphy, recipient of theVictoria Cross for bravery at sea in saving life in a storm off theAndaman Islands in 1867 (d.1900).Deaths
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18 November -Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (b.1758).
*Gideon Ouseley ,Methodism 's 'apostle to the Irish' (b.1762).
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