- 1843 in Ireland
Events
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January -Daniel O'Connell proclaims 1843 as the "Repeal Year".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 375]
*21 February - Repeal (of the Act of Union) debate inDublin Corporation .
*11 June - Series of monster meetings to agitate for repeal begins atTuam .
*11 June - O'Connell's "Mallow defiance".
*15 August - Repeal meeting at Tara.
*7 October - O'Connell gives in to government prohibition of Clontarf meeting planned for the next day.
*Daniel O'Connell charged with conspiracy.
*November -Devon Commission appointed to research the problems with land leases.
*Work started on the building ofCrumlin Road (HM Prison) inBelfast .Births
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11 January -C. Y. O'Connor , engineer inAustralia (d.1902).
*3 May -Edward Dowden , critic and poet (d.1913).
*24 November -Richard Croker , politician in America and a leader ofNew York City 'sTammany Hall (d.1922).
*25 December -Albert Cashier , soldier in theUnion Army during theAmerican Civil War , physically female, but lived as a man (d.1915).
*28 December -George Thomas Stokes , ecclesiastical historian (d.1898).Full date unknown
*George Fisher,
Mayor of Wellington ,New Zealand (d.1905).Deaths
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19 February -Michael Joseph Quin , author, journalist and editor (b.1796).
*11 May -William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey , politician andstatesman (b.1783) [ [http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/william_vesey_fitzgerald.htm/ Clare People: William Vesey-FitzGerald] ] .
*10 August -Robert Adrain , scientist and mathematician in America (b.1775).Full date unknown
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Abraham Colles , professor ofAnatomy ,Surgery andPhysiology at theRoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland (b.1773).References
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