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Events from the year 1832 in Ireland.


Events

*23 May – following disorder at
Castlepollard Castlepollard ( or ''Cionn Toirc'') is a village in north County Westmeath, Ireland. It lies west of Lough Lene and northeast of Lough Derravaragh and Mullingar. Name The name ''Castlepollard'' comes from the name of a castle or fortified m ...
Fair in
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, at least seven men and two women are shot dead by the constabulary. *7 August – the Representation of the People (Ireland) Act, 1832, commonly called the Irish Reform Act 1832, introduces wide-ranging changes to the laws for elections to the
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, particularly in the
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s.


Arts and literature

*January – Theatre Royal, Wexford opened.


Births

*6 May – Margaret Anna Cusack, nun, writer and founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace (died
1899 in England Events January * January 1 ** Spanish rule formally ends in Cuba with the cession of Spanish sovereignty to the U.S., concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (February 1899), p ...
). *10 May –
William Russell Grace William Russell Grace (May 10, 1832 – March 21, 1904) was an American politician, the first Roman Catholic mayor of New York City, and the founder of W. R. Grace and Company. Early life Grace was born in Ireland in Riverstown near the Cove ...
, businessman and first
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of
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(died
1904 in the United States Events from the year 1904 in the United States. Incumbents Federal government * President: Theodore Roosevelt ( R-New York) * Vice President: ''vacant'' * Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois) * Speaker of the House of Representativ ...
). *September – John Byrne, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, British decorations system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British ...
for gallantry in 1854 at the
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,
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(died 1879 in Wales). *30 September – Charlotte Riddell, née Cowan, novelist and editor (died 1906 in England). *11 November – Martin Murphy, civil engineer (died
1926 in Canada Events from the year 1926 in Canada. Incumbents Crown * List of Canadian monarchs, Monarch – George V of the United Kingdom, George V Federal government * Governor General of Canada, Governor General – Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng ...
). *14 November – Stopford Brooke, Anglican clergyman and writer (died 1916 in England).


Full date unknown

* Patrick Carlin,
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soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 in
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(died
1895 Events January * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of tr ...
). * Thomas McCarthy, businessman and politician in
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(died
1870 in Canada Events from the year 1870 in Canada. Incumbents Crown * Monarch – Victoria Federal government * Governor General – John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar * Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald * Parliament – 1st Provincial governments ...
). *
Standish Hayes O'Grady Standish Hayes O'Grady (; 19 May 1832 – 16 October 1915) was an Irish antiquarian. Early and education He was born at Erinagh House, Castleconnell, County Limerick, the son of Admiral Hayes O'Grady. He was a cousin of the writer Standish ...
, antiquarian (died
1915 in England Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 * ...
). *
Joseph Ward Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Baronet, (26 April 1856 – 8 July 1930) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 17th prime minister of New Zealand from 1906 to 1912 and from 1928 to 1930. He was a dominant figure in the New Zealand Liber ...
, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at
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, India (died
1872 Events January * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. *January 20 – The Cavite mutiny was an uprising of Filipino military personnel of Fort S ...
).


Deaths

* 20 January –
Alexander Nimmo Alexander Nimmo FRSE MRIA MICE HFGS (1783 – January 20, 1832) was a Scottish civil engineer and geologist active in early 19th-century Ireland. Early life Nimmo was born in Cupar, Fife in 1783, the son of a watchmaker, and grew up in Kirk ...
, Scottish civil engineer and geologist active in early 19th-century Ireland *8 April –
Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney Lieutenant General Andrew Thomas Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney (30 November 1770 – 8 April 1834), was an Anglo-Irish peer. He ruled the Blayney estate at Castleblayney, County Monaghan, for fifty years from 1784 to 1834. As commanding officer o ...
, soldier, politician and peer (born
1770 Events January– March * January 1 – The foundation of Fort George, Bombay is laid by Colonel Keating, principal engineer, on the site of the former Dongri Fort. * February 1 – Thomas Jefferson's home at Shadwell, Vi ...
). *18 September – Henry Boyd, literary translator. *28 December –
Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham Henry Burton Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham, (26 December 1766 – 28 December 1832), known as The Lord Conyngham between 1787 and 1789, as The Viscount Conyngham between 1789 and 1797 and as The Earl Conyngham between 1797 and 1815, was an ...
, politician (born
1766 Events January–March * January 1 – Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") becomes the new House of Stuart, Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain, as King Charles III, and figurehead for Jacobitism. * Januar ...
).


See also

* 1832 in Scotland * 1832 in Wales


References

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Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...
Years of the 19th century in Ireland