1839 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

• The Ulster Railway began construction of a railway line between Belfast and Lisburn.
• Marquess of Donegall lays the foundation stone for the Palm House in Belfast Botanic Gardens.
• A severe windstorm called the Night of the Big Wind sweeps across Ireland killing hundreds and leaving thousands homeless.

[edit] Births

• 6 January - Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and diplomat (d.1901).
• 16 March - John Butler Yeats, artist and father of William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats (d.1922).
• 27 March - John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand (d.1893).
• 1 April - St. Clair Augustine Mulholland, American Civil War officer (d.1910).
• 27 April - Charles Frederick Houghton, soldier and politician in Canada (d.1898).
• 10 May - Thomas Joseph Carr, second Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia (d.1917).
• 11 July - William John Hennessy, artist (d.1917).
• 5 September - Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet, Liberal Party MP (d.1909).
• 4 November - Thomas MacDonald Patterson, politician and newspaper publisher in the USA (d.1916).
• 24 November - James William Adams, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Killa Kazi, Afghanistan (d.1903).
• 30 December - John Todhunter, poet and playwright (d.1916).

[edit] Full date unknown

• William Lundon, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (d.1909).
• John Pentland Mahaffy, classicist (d.1919).
• Thomas Murphy, recipient of the Victoria Cross for bravery at sea in saving life in a storm off the Andaman Islands in 1867 (d.1900).

[edit] Deaths

• 18 November - Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (b.1758).
• Gideon Ouseley, Methodism's 'apostle to the Irish' (b.1762).