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1814 In Ireland
Events from the year 1814 in Ireland. Events *1 February – Royal Belfast Academical Institution opened as a school and college. *18 June – improved navigation of River Shannon between Limerick and Killaloe opens. *25 December – inauguration of Chapel Royal, Dublin, designed by Francis Johnston. * Apprentice Boys of Derry Club formed (although the siege of Derry has been celebrated from the 17th century). *William Shaw Mason's ''A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland, drawn up from the communications of the clergy'' begins publication in Dublin. Arts and literature *27 May – Harriet Smithson makes her stage debut at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, as Albina Mandeville in Frederick Reynolds's '' The Will''. * Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes her novel ''O'Donnell''. Births *10 January – Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet and critic (died 1902). *9 May – John Brougham, actor and dramatist (died 1880). *18 August – David Moriarty, Roman Catholic Bishop o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
The Royal Belfast Academical Institution is an independent grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland. With the support of Belfast's leading reformers and democrats, it opened its doors in 1814. Until 1849, when it was superseded by what today is Queen's University, the institution pioneered Belfast's first programme of collegiate education. Locally referred to as Inst, the modern school educates boys from ages 11 to 18. It is one of the eight Northern Irish schools represented on the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The school occupies an 18-acre site in the centre of the city on which its first buildings were erected. History Dissident foundation William Bruce wrote in 1806 in denunciation of "visionary notions" to establish an academical institution that " is town has from some years been in possession of an excellent plan of school education for which it is indebted to the Belfast Academy funded in 1786". What was to become the school was not the first visionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brougham
John Brougham (9 May 1814 – 7 June 1880) was an Irish-American actor and dramatist. Biography He was born at Dublin. His father was an amateur painter, and died young. His mother was the daughter of a Huguenot, whom political adversity had forced into exile. John was the eldest of three children. The other two died in youth, and, the father being dead and the widowed mother left penniless, the surviving boy was reared in the family and home of an uncle. He was prepared for college at an academy at Trim, County Meath, twenty miles from Dublin, and subsequently was sent to Trinity College Dublin. There he acquired classical learning, and formed interesting and useful associations and acquaintances; and there also he became interested in private theatricals. Brougham fell in with a crowd that put on their own shows, cast by drawing parts out of a hat. Though he most always traded off larger roles so he could pay attention to his studies, Brougham took quite an interest in actin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Anglican Bishops Of Killaloe
The Bishop of Killaloe ( ) is an episcopal title which takes its name after the town of Killaloe in County Clare, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics. History The Diocese of Killaloe was one of the twenty-four dioceses established at the Synod of Rathbreasail in 1111. The boundaries of the diocese consisted of almost all of County Clare, the northern part of County Tipperary and the western part of County Offaly. Its Irish name is ''Cill-da-lua'' (Church of Lua), so named from St Mo Lua, an abbot who lived in the late 6th century. At the Synod of Kells in March 1152, Killaloe some lost territory when the dioceses of Kilfenora, Roscrea and Scattery Island were created. Following the Reformation, there are now parallel Killaloe dioceses: one of the Church of Ireland and the other of the Roman Catholic Church. ; In Church of Ireland The pre-Reformation Cathedral Church of St Flan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fitzgerald (bishop)
William FitzGerald (1814–1883) was an Anglican bishop, first of Cork, Cloyne and Ross and then of Killaloe and Clonfert. FitzGerald was the son of Maurice FitzGerald, M.D. (d.1838), former Crown Physician at Madras, India, by his second wife, Mary (d.1821), daughter of Edward William Burton of Clifden, County Clare, and younger brother of Francis Alexander FitzGerald, third baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland. He was born at Lifford, Limerick on 3 Dec. 1814. He was first educated at Midleton College, County Cork, and then entering Trinity College, Dublin, in November 1830, obtained a scholarship in 1833, the primate's Hebrew prize in 1834, and the Downes's premium for composition in 1835 and 1837. He took his degree of B.A. in 1835, his M.A. in 1848, and his B.D. and D.D. in 1853.G. C. Boase, revised by David Huddleston"Fitzgerald, William (1814–1883)"in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' online, accessed 22 April 2019, He was ordained deacon on 25 April 183 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1845 In Ireland
Events from the year 1845 in Ireland. Events *18 February – Devon Commission reports to the British government on the poor living conditions of the Irish population: "in many districts their only food is the potato". *September–December – African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass makes a speaking tour of Ireland. *9 September – previously unknown potato blight strikes the potato crop: start of the Great Famine. *1 October – Wesley College (Dublin) founded. *31 October–1 November: an emergency meeting of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom (summoned on 15 October by Sir Robert Peel, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) votes against Peel on the distribution of relief in Ireland, considering it would call the Corn Laws into question. *9–10 November – Peel orders the secret purchase of £100,000 worth of maize and meal from the United States for distribution in Ireland. *15 November – scientific commissioners (appointed in October) report that half ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Nation Once Again
"A Nation Once Again" is a song written in the early to mid-1840s by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845). Davis was a founder of Young Ireland, an Irish movement whose aim was for Ireland to gain independence from Britain. Davis believed that songs could have a strong emotional impact on people. He wrote that "a song is worth a thousand harangues". He felt that music could have a particularly strong influence on Irish people at that time. He wrote: "Music is the first faculty of the Irish... we will endeavour to teach the people to sing the songs of their country that they may keep alive in their minds the love of the fatherland." "A Nation Once Again" was first published in '' The Nation'' on 13 July 1844 and quickly became a rallying call for the growing Irish nationalist movement at that time. The song is a prime example of the " Irish rebel music" subgenre. The song's narrator dreams of a time when Ireland will be, as the title suggests, a free land, with "our fetters rent in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Osborne Davis (Irish Politician)
Thomas Osborne Davis (14 October 1814 – 16 September 1845) was an Irish writer; with Charles Gavan Duffy and John Blake Dillon, a founding editor of ''The Nation,'' the weekly organ of what came to be known as the Young Ireland movement. While embracing the common cause of a representative, national government for Ireland, Davis took issue with the nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell by arguing for the common ("mixed") education of Catholics and Protestants and by advocating for Irish as the national language. Early life Thomas Davis was born on 14 October 1814, in Mallow, County Cork, fourth and last child of James Davis, a Welsh surgeon in the Royal Artillery based for many years in Dublin, and an Irish mother. His father died in Exeter a month before his birth, en route to serve in the Peninsular War. His mother was Protestant, but also related to the Chiefs of Clan O'Sullivan of Beare, members of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland. His mother had enough money to live on h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881 In Ireland
Events from the year 1881 in Ireland. Events *16 January – the lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, −19.1C (−2.4F) at Markree, County Sligo. *3 February – arrest of Michael Davitt. *William Ewart Gladstone's second Land Act secures the three "f"s (fair rents, fixity of tenure and freedom of sale), and gives the courts the authority to reconsider judicial rents every three years and to adjust them in line with shifts in agricultural prices. *June – the submarine "''Fenian Ram''" (''Holland Boat No. II''), designed by Irish-born John Philip Holland and financed by the American Fenian Brotherhood, is first submersion-tested in New York City. *Coercion Acts. *October – arrest of Charles Stewart Parnell and other leaders. *18 October – No Rent Manifesto. *19 October – Irish National Land League proclaimed as an unlawful association. *Kilmacud Monastery established by Carmelite nuns. *Approximate date – St John Ambulance Ireland establishes its first cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Graves MacDonnell
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell (; 3 September 1814 – 5 February 1881) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer, judge and colonial governor. His posts as governor included Governor of the British Settlements in West Africa, Governor of Saint Vincent, Governor of South Australia, Governor of Nova Scotia and Governor of Hong Kong. Several places around the world are named for him including MacDonnell Road in Hong Kong; and, the MacDonnell Ranges and Sir Richard Peninsula in Australia. Early life Richard Graves MacDonnell was born in Dublin, 8 September 1814, the second son of Richard MacDonnell, the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and Jane Graves (1793–1882), second daughter of Richard Graves, Dean of Ardagh. He was a nephew of Robert James Graves and the brother of Major-General Arthur Robert MacDonnell. His first cousins included Lady Valentine Blake of Menlough, Sir William Collis Meredith, Edmund Allen Meredith, John Dawson Mayne and Francis Brinkley. MacDonnell entered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1873 In Ireland
Events from the year 1873 in Ireland. Events *February – Irish Home Rule Movement: Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain founded in Manchester. *March – Gladstone's Irish University Bill defeated in the House of Commons. *May 4 – the Roman Catholic St Eugene's Cathedral, Derry, is dedicated. *November 18–21 – Irish Home Rule Movement: The Home Government Association reconstitutes itself as the Home Rule League. Arts and literature Sport * October – foundation of County Carlow Football Club, Rugby Union Club Births *9 January – John Flanagan, three-time Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw (died 1938). *17 January – T. C. Murray, dramatist (died 1959). *27 January – Alexander Young, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Ruiterskraal, South Africa, killed in action (died 1916). *1 February – John Barry, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Monument Hill, South Africa (died 1901). * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1877 In Ireland
Events from the year 1877 in Ireland. Events * May – Sophia Jex-Blake qualifies as a Licentiate of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians of Ireland (LKQCPI). * 1 September – the narrow gauge Ballymena and Larne Railway starts operations in County Antrim, from Larne to Ballyclare for goods traffic. * 14 August – National Museum of Ireland established in Dublin. Arts and literature * Percy French, at this time a student at Trinity College Dublin, composes the song "Abdul Abulbul Amir". Sport Births *20 February – T. C. Hammond, Anglican clergyman, Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney (died 1961). *12 March – Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (died 1927). *17 March – George Gardiner, boxer (died 1954). *2 April – Gus Kelly, cricketer (died 1951). *2 April – Richard Rowley, poet and writer (died 1947). *26 April – Robert Gwynn, cricketer (died 1962). *26 May – Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, feminist, suffragette and writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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