- 1817 in Ireland
Events
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St. George's Church, Belfast Anglican church is opened.Births
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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 inQuebec (d.1890).
*11 October -Walter Shanly , civil engineer, author, businessman and politician inCanada (d.1899).
*12 November -John T. Mills , lawyer and Supreme Court Justice for theRepublic of Texas (d.1871).Full date unknown
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John Willoughby Crawford , politician and third Lieutenant Governor ofOntario (d.1875).
*Frederick McCoy ,palaeontologist andmuseum administrator inAustralia (d.1899).Deaths
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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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