- 1853 in Ireland
Events
*Great Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin. [ [http://www.lib.umd.edu/ARCH/honr219f/1853dubl.html/ Dublin 1853] ]
Births
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30 January -Leland Hone , cricketer (d.1896).
*6 February -Robert John McConnell , businessman,baronet andLord Mayor of Belfast (d.1927).
*7 February -Egerton Bushe Coghill , painter (d.1921).
*30 March -Frank O'Meara , artist (d.1888).
*March -John Doogan , soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 atLaing's Nek ,South Africa (d.1940).
*10 April -Owen Hall , theatre writer and critic (d.1907).
*3 July -Aloysius O'Kelly , painter (d. c1941).
*July - Thomas Brennan, a founder and joint first secretary of theIrish National Land League (d.1912).Deaths
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14 April -Robert Baldwin Sullivan , lawyer, judge, and politician inCanada , secondMayor of Toronto (b.1802).
*21 September -Timothy Burns ,Lieutenant Governor ofWisconsin from 1851 to 1853 (b.1820).
*28 October -Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry , politician (b.1773) [ [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101016163// Valentine Lawless - Oxford Biography Index entry] ] .References
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