1856 in Ireland

Events

Arts and literature

port

Births

*14 February - Frank Harris, author, editor, journalist and publisher (d.1931).
*20 March - John Lavery, artist (d.1941).
*2 May - Matt Talbot, manual labourer and ascetic (d.1925).
*26 July - George Bernard Shaw, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) (d.1950).
*18 August - Walter Richard Pollock Hamilton, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Futtehabad, Afghanistan (d.1879).
*17 November - Thomas Taggart, politician in the United States (d.1929).
*28 November - Patrick Cardinal O'Donnell, Roman Catholic, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (d.1927).

Full date unknown

*Tomás Ó Criomhthain, writer (d.1937).

Deaths

*27 January - John Lalor, journalist and author (b.1814).
*4 February - William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel, peer and MP (b.1801).
*18 March - Henry Eldred Curwen Pottinger, soldier and colonial administrator, first Governor of Hong Kong (b.1789).
*31 May - Yankee Sullivan, bare knuckle fighter and boxer (b.1811).
*2 June - Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew, politician (b.1787).

Full date Unknown

*Theobald Mathew, aka "Father Mathew", temperance reformer (b.1790).