1851 in Ireland

1851 in Ireland

Events

*Construction of MacNeill's Egyptian Arch, a railway bridge near Newry on the Dublin-Belfast railway line is completed.
*Potato crop fails.

Arts and literature

port

Births

*8 January - William McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim, peer (d.1918).
*14 March - Paddy Ryan, boxer (d. 1900).
*21 March - Henry Prittie, 4th Baron Dunalley, peer and Lord Lieutenant of County Tipperary 1905-1922 (d.1927).
*4 April - James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, lawyer, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, first Chairman of Seanad Éireann (d.1931).
*22 May - William Moxley, representative from Illinois' 6th congressional district (d.1938).
*4 September - John Dillon, land reform agitator, Irish Home Rule activist, nationalist politician, MP and last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (d.1927).

Full date unknown

*George Noble Plunkett, nationalist, politician, museum curator (d.1948).
*Ted Sullivan, Major League Baseball player and manager (d.1929).

Deaths

*23 May - Richard Lalor Sheil, politician, writer and orator (b.1791).


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