1841 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1841 in Ireland.

Events

• 6 June – United Kingdom Census: the first thorough census is completed and the population of Ireland is calculated to be just under 8.25 million.[1]
• 1 November – Daniel O'Connell is elected as the first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin in centuries.[2]
• 3 November – foundation stone for Saint Malachy's Church, Belfast is laid (completed in 1844).
• Ennis Friary refounded by Franciscans.
• The Cork Examiner newspaper is founded by John Francis Maguire in support of the Catholic Emancipation and tenant rights work of Daniel O'Connell.[3]
• Ulster Canal completed.[4]
• Anthony Trollope moves to Ireland as an official of the General Post Office, initially settling in Banagher.[5]

Arts and literature

• Charles Lever's novel Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon is published in Dublin.

Births

• 12 February – Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (died 1926).
• 30 April – Charles Cooper Penrose-Fitzgerald, admiral in the Royal Navy (died 1921).
• 31 August – Patrick Egan, treasurer of the Irish Land League, fled to the United States, United States Minister to Chile (died 1919).
• 10 September – Max Arthur Macauliffe, British administrator, scholar and author (died 1913).
• 31 October – Abraham Dowdney, United States Representative from New York and officer in the Union army in the American Civil War (died 1886).
• 5 December – Marcus Daly, businessman in America (died 1900).
• 22 December – Thomas McCarthy Fennell, Fenian political prisoner transported to Western Australia (died 1914).

  Full date unknown

  • Patrick Buckley, soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge in New Zealand (died 1896).
  • Rosa Mulholland, novelist, short-story writer and poet (died 1921).
  • Charles Anderson Read, journalist, novelist and anthologist (died 1878).

Deaths

• 7 January – James Arthur O'Connor, painter (born 1792).
• 17 March – Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager (born 1797).
• 18 April – Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, politician and statesman (born 1774).
• 21 July – Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, Royal Navy captain (born 1794).
• 24 August – Thomas Hopkirk, botanist (born 1785 in Scotland).
• 11 November – Catherine McAuley, nun (born 1778).

References

1. "The Census of 1841". A Short History of Ireland. BBC. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
2. "Daniel O'Connell, Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1841". Multitext Project in Irish History. University College Cork. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
3. Litvack, Leon; Hooper, Glenn, eds. (2000). Ireland in the Nineteenth Century: regional identity. Dublin: Four Courts Press. p. 38. ISBN 1851824782.
4. Delany, Ruth (1986). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. ISBN 0-86281-200-3.
5. Trollope, Anthony (1883). "Chapter 3". An Autobiography. Retrieved 2010-07-02.