1860 in Ireland

Events

*Deasy's Land Act [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 377] , intended to reform tenants' rights.
*Construction began on St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast.

Births

*1 January - John Cassidy, sculptor and painter (d.1939).
*17 January - Douglas Hyde, member of the Seanad in 1922 and 1938; first President of Ireland and Gaelic scholar (d.1949).
*26 April - Gerald Carew, 5th Baron Carew (d.1927) [ [http://www.thepeerage.com/p20344.htm/ thePeerage] ] .
*15 June - Robert Carew, 3rd Baron Carew (d.1923) [ [http://www.thepeerage.com/p20343.htm/ thePeerage] ] .
*25 June - John Danaher, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 near Pretoria, South Africa (d.1919).
*8 December - Amanda McKittrick Ros, novelist and poet (d.1939).

Full date unknown

*Patrick S. Dinneen, lexicographer and historian (d.1934).
*Sidney Royse Lysaght, writer (d.1941).
*Ada Rehan, actress (d.1916).

Deaths

*12 February - William Francis Patrick Napier, soldier and military historian (b.1785).
*17 March - Anna Brownell Jameson, writer (b.1794).
*23 October - Peter Boyle de Blaquière, politician in Canada and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (b.1783).
*24 November - George Croly, poet, novelist, historian and divine (b.1780) [ [http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/nov/24.htm Chambers' Book of Days] ]

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