1817 in Ireland

1817 in Ireland

Events

*St. George's Church, Belfast Anglican church is opened.

Births

*6 January - J. J. McCarthy, architect (d.1882).
*26 May - Denis Florence MacCarthy, poet, translator, biographer (d.1882).
*19 September - Charles Joseph Alleyn, lawyer and political figure in Quebec (d.1890).
*11 October - Walter Shanly, civil engineer, author, businessman and politician in Canada (d.1899).
*12 November - John T. Mills, lawyer and Supreme Court Justice for the Republic of Texas (d.1871).

Full date unknown

*John Willoughby Crawford, politician and third Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1875).
*Frederick McCoy, palaeontologist and museum administrator in Australia (d.1899).

Deaths

*23 May - John Prendergast Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort, politician (b.1742).
*14 October - John Philpot Curran, orator and wit, lawyer and MP (b.1750).


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