1833 in Ireland

Events

• 29 July – Nathaniel Sneyd is shot in the head by a madman on Westmoreland Street, Dublin. He dies from his injuries two days later.
• August – Mount Melleray Abbey in the Knockmealdown Mountains is founded, the first Cistercian foundation in Ireland in modern times.
• 10 August – major fire in stores of The Custom House, Dublin, sets River Liffey aflame.
• 14 August – Church Temporalities Act 1833 suppresses ten bishoprics in the Church of Ireland, with dioceses to be merged as sees fall vacant, and provides for abolition of Vestry Assessment.
• 28 August – the school which will evolve into Castleknock College is opened in Dublin by the Vincentian community.
• Katherine Sophia Kane's The Irish Flora is published anonymously.

Arts and literature

• Early – Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, aged 14, makes his stage debut, at the Dublin Theatre, playing William Tell.

Births

• 21 January – Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimea (died 1869).
• 8 February – Launt Thompson, sculptor (died 1894).
• 4 May – Michael N. Nolan, U.S. Representative from New York, mayor of Albany (died 1905).
• 29 May – William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel, peer and Liberal politician (died 1924).
• 4 June – Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, soldier (died 1913).
• 17 July – Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea (died 1870).
• 3 November – William Knox Leet, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Inhlobana, Zululand, South Africa (died 1898).
• 7 November – William Temple, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 at Rangiriri, New Zealand (died 1919).
• Sir Theobald Hubert Burke, 13th Baronet (died 1909).
• Henry James O'Farrell, would-be assassin (executed 1868 in Australia).

Deaths

• 28 March – William Thompson, political and philosophical writer and social reformer (born 1775).
• 3 May – Nicholas Tuite MacCarthy, Jesuit preacher (born 1769).
• 31 July – Nathaniel Sneyd, politician, landowner and businessman.

In fiction

• Brian Friel's play Translations (premiered 1980) is set in County Donegal in 1833.

References

References

1. "Church Temporalities Act, 1833". [[Irish Statute Book]].
2. "Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press".