1864 in Ireland

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← 1863 1862 1861 1860 1859 1864 in Ireland → 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869
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See also:	1864 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1864 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1864 in Ireland.

Events

• 1 January –
  civil registry
  of births, deaths and marriages replaces parish church registers.
• 30 January – opening of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.
• May – Theobald Jones presents his Report on the progress made in collecting the Irish lichens to the Natural History Society of Dublin.
• December –
  libelled Mary Travers; Travers is awarded only a nominal farthing in damages but Lady and the newly knighted Sir William Wilde
  have to pay substantial costs.
• Foundation of the Munster Bank, later rescued as the Munster & Leinster Bank, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks.

Arts and literature

• locked room mystery-thriller Uncle Silas (serialized July–December in his Dublin University Magazine as "Maud Ruthyn and Uncle Silas"; published December as a three-volume novel by Richard Bentley in London).^[1]

• 1 January – John Mahony, Kerry hurler (died 1943).
• 31 January –
  lichenologist (died 1933
  ).
• 13 February – Stephen Gwynn, journalist, writer, poet and Nationalist politician (died 1950).
• 22 February –
  U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (died 1958
  ).
• 4 March –
  Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years (died 1963
  ).
• 5 May –
  Field Marshal and Conservative Party politician (killed by the Irish Republican Army
  1922 in England).
• 11 May –
  Ethel Lilian Voynich, née Boole, novelist and composer (died 1960
  ).
• 16 July – Joseph O'Mara, opera singer (died 1927).
• 1 September –
  Pentonville Prison (died 1916
  ).
• 19 October – Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, peer and soldier (died 1915).
• 11 November –
  Brigadier General (died 1942
  ).
• 22 November –
  MP and Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland 1925–1937 (died 1944
  ).
• 9 December – Willoughby Hamilton, tennis player, Wimbledon Champion in 1890 (died 1943).
• 21 December –
  Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments (died 1930
  ).

  Full date unknown

  • William Gerard Barry, painter (died 1941).
  • Denis Grimes, Limerick hurler (died 1920).
  • Michael McCarthy, nationalist anticlerical lawyer (died 1928).
  • Moira O'Neill (Nesta Shakespear Higginson), poet (died 1955).
  • J. Laurie Wallace, painter (died 1953).

Deaths

• 10 January – Nicholas Callan, priest and scientist (born 1799).
• 20 May – John George Bowes, businessman and political figure in Canada East (b. c.1812).
• 18 June – William Smith O'Brien, nationalist (born 1803).
• 4 July – Thomas Colley Grattan, writer (born 1792).
• 23 July – Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1824).
• 27 July – Joseph Patrick Haverty, painter (born 1794).
• 21 November – Charles McNally, Bishop of Clogher 1844–1864 (born 1787).
• 30 November –
  Battle of Franklin (born 1828
  ).
• 8 December – George Boole, mathematician (born 1815).
• 23 December – James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (born 1804).
• William Guy Wall, painter (born 1792).

See also

• 1864 in Scotland
• 1864 in Wales

References