1863 in Ireland
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[edit] Events
- The Ulster Railway, which began construction in 1839, reaches Clones.
- 28 November - First edition of The Irish People.[1]
[edit] Arts and Literature
- Sheridan Le Fanu publishes The House by the Churchyard.
[edit] Births
- 1 February - George Carew, 4th Baron Carew (d.1926).
- 10 March - Elizabeth Watkins, born in Ireland, lived to be the oldest person in the world (d.1973).
- 17 March - P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of San Francisco (d.1933).
- 31 March - Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician (d.1961).
- 2 April - Mabel Cahill, tennis player.
- 9 April - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (d.1951).
- 12 August - Margaretta Eagar, nurse for the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and memoirist (d.1936).
- 25 August - Eugene O'Growney, priest and scholar (d.1899).
- 7 September - Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Royal Navy Hydrographic Surveyor, murdered by Irish Republican Army (d.1936).
- 26 September - Caesar Litton Falkiner, Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer and historian (d.1908).
- 24 November - Frederick Thomas Trouton, physicist responsible for Trouton's Rule (d.1922).
[edit] Full date unknown
- F Elrington Ball, author and legal historian (d.1928).
- John Mahony, Kerry hurler (d.1943).
[edit] Deaths
- 1 January - Ambrose Madden, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 in the Crimea, at Little Inkerman (b.1806).
- 16 February - Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (b.1822).
- 21 February - Samuel Hill, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, later killed in action (b.1826).
- 6 May - Robert Arbuthnot, British military officer (b.1773).
- 7 July - William Mulready, painter (b.1786).
- 8 July - Francis Kenrick, headed the Diocese of Philadelphia, then was Archbishop of Baltimore (b.1796).
- 24 July - Thomas Arthur Bellew, landowner and politician (b.1820).
- 17 October - John Dunlay, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (b.1831).
- 10 December - James FitzGibbon, British soldier and hero of the War of 1812 (b.1782).
- 10 December - Charles C. Ingham, painter and founder of New York National Academy of Design (b.1797).
[edit] References
- ^ Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds) (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork, Ireland: The Mercier Press, p 377.