1862 in Ireland

Events

• 1 January – a formal partnership between Edward Harland and Gustav Wilhelm Wolff establishes the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff.
• 12 May – the Ulster Hall, a concert hall in Belfast, is opened.
• July – the Glasgow & Stranraer Steam Packet Company's enters service on the first Stranraer to Larne ferry service.
• 10 September – Eliza Lynch becomes de facto First Lady of Paraguay.
• 3 December – the Midland Great Western Railway extends from Longford to Sligo.
• ;Undated
• :*The Dublin Fire Brigade is established under the Dublin Corporation Fire Brigades Act.
• :*Publication of The Leadbeater Papers, containing the first edition of the Annals of Ballitore by Mary Leadbeater (died 1826).

Arts and literature

• Julia Kavanagh publishes French Women of Letters.
• Charles Lever publishes the novel Barrington serially.

Births

• 2 April – Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (died 1930).
• 27 May – John Edward Campbell, mathematician (died 1924 in Oxford).
• 10 June – John de Robeck, admiral in the British Navy (died 1928).
• 11 June – Violet Florence Martin, author (died 1915).
• 14 June – John J. Glennon, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and Cardinal (died 1946).
• 21 September – Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet, peer, MP and Seanad member (died 1935).
• 14 October – Samuel Cunningham, politician and Irish Privy Councillor (died 1946).
• 6 November – Edward Bulfin, British general during World War I (died 1939).
• 15 December – Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (died 1896).
• Gertrude Kelly, surgeon and radical activist in New York (died 1934 in the United States).

Deaths

• 6 April – Fitz James O'Brien, author (born 1828).
• 21 May – John Drew, actor (born 1827).
• 18 July – John George de la Poer Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) (born 1773).
• 30 July – Eugene O'Curry, scholar (born 1794).
• 30 November – James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (born 1784).

References

References

1. (1989). "A New History of Ireland. '''8''': A Chronology of Irish History". Oxford University Press.
2. (1986). "Shipbuilders to the World: 125 years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast 1861–1986". Blackstaff Press.
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