1861 in Ireland

Events

• 8–10 April – John George Adair of Glenveagh Castle evicts tenants at Derryveagh in County Donegal.
• 18 June – completion and official inauguration of the Wellington Monument, Dublin, in Phoenix Park, built to the design of Sir Robert Smirke (begun 1817).
• 21–30 August – Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, visit Ireland.
• 24 August – Mater Misericordiae Hospital is opened in Dublin by the Sisters of Mercy (architect: John Bourke).
• 17 September – the , with a badly damaged rudder, anchors in Cork Harbour for temporary repairs.
• Reconstruction of Fort Camden as part of the Cork Harbour defences begins.
• Irish Famine (1861)

Arts and literature

• July – Sheridan Le Fanu becomes editor and proprietor of the Dublin University Magazine. From October he begins serialization of his novel The House by the Churchyard in it.

Sport

• Malahide Cricket Club founded.

Births

• 23 January – Katharine Tynan, novelist and poet (died 1931).
• 6 February – George Tyrrell, expelled Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (died 1909).
• 19 March – Joseph MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (died 1945).
• 15 April – William Hoey Kearney Redmond, nationalist politician, barrister, brother of John Redmond, killed in Battle of Messines (died 1917).
• 21 June – Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer (died 1881).
• 16 October – J. B. Bury, historian, classical scholar and philologist (died 1927).
• 3 November – Thomas O'Brien Butler, composer (died 1915 in the sinking of RMS Lusitania).
• 5 November – Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet, cricketer (died 1948).
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Frank Duffy, labour leader in America (died 1955).
• :*Nathaniel Hill, artist (died 1934).
• :*Leonard Greenham Star Molloy, soldier, doctor, M.P. (died 1937)

Deaths

• 13 May – William Henry Fitton, geologist (born 1780).
• 19 May – Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools (born 1794).
• 27 June – Robert O'Hara Burke, explorer of Australia (born 1821).
• 11 August – Catherine Hayes, opera diva (born 1818).
• 10 December – John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer (born 1806).

References

References

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