- 1851 in Ireland
Events
*Construction of
MacNeill's Egyptian Arch , a railway bridge nearNewry on theDublin-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 andLord 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 fromIllinois' 6th congressional district (d.1938).
*4 September -John Dillon ,land reform agitator, Irish Home Rule activist, nationalist politician, MP and last leader of theIrish 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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