1859 in Ireland

Events

• 29 March – The Irish Times is first published, in Dublin.
• 28 April–18 May – United Kingdom general election in Ireland produces a Tory majority in Irish seats.
• 30 April – American ship Pomona carrying, mainly Irish, emigrants from Liverpool to New York, is wrecked on a sandbank at Ballyconigar, off Wexford, with 424 deaths and only 24 survivors.
• Evangelical Ulster Revival.
• John Sisk establishes his building construction business in Cork.

Births

• 3 January – Maurice Healy, lawyer, politician and MP (died 1923).
• 30 January – Tony Mullane, Major League Baseball player (died 1944).
• 1 February – Victor Herbert, composer, cellist and conductor (died 1924).
• 11 February – Barry Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore, nobleman and officer (died 1885).
• February – James Murray, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Elandsfontein, near Pretoria, South Africa (died 1942).
• 13 April – Daniel Gallery, politician in Canada (died 1920).
• 22 April – Ada Rehan, Shakespearean actress (died 1916 in the United States).
• 4 May – William Hamilton, cricketer (died 1914).
• 16 October – Daisy Bates, née Margaret Dwyer, anthropologist (died 1951 in Australia).
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Francis Fitzpatrick, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 during an attack on Sekukuni's Town, South Africa (died 1933).
• :*Thomas Houghton, Anglican Clergyman and editor of the Gospel Magazine (died 1951).
• :*Edward Martyn, playwright and activist (died 1923).
• :*Justin Huntly McCarthy, politician and author (died 1936).
• :*Walter Osborne, painter (died 1903).
• :*Henry Jones Thaddeus, painter (died 1929).

Deaths

• 14 April – Lady Morgan, novelist (b. c1776).
• 3 November – George Forrest, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 at Delhi, India (born 1800).
• 29 April – Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer (born 1793).
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Peter McManus, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross.

References

References

1. (1859-05-28). "The Wreck of the Pomona". Wexford Independent.
2. Miller, D. W.. (2005). "Evangelicals and Catholics in Nineteenth Century Ireland". Four Courts Press.
3. "Sisk History Timeline". Sisk.