1843 in Ireland
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[edit] Events
- January - Daniel O'Connell proclaims 1843 as the "Repeal Year".[1]
- 21 February - Repeal (of the Act of Union) debate in Dublin Corporation.[1]
- 11 June - Series of monster meetings to agitate for repeal begins at Tuam.[1]
- 11 June - O'Connell's "Mallow defiance".[1]
- 15 August - Repeal meeting at Tara.[1]
- 18 August - unofficial opening of the Dalkey Atmospheric Railway
- 7 October - O'Connell gives in to government prohibition of Clontarf meeting planned for the next day.[1]
- Daniel O'Connell charged with conspiracy.[1]
- November - Devon Commission appointed to research the problems with land leases.[1]
- Work started on the building of Crumlin Road (HM Prison) in Belfast.
[edit] Births
- 11 January - C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia (d.1902).
- 3 May - Edward Dowden, critic and poet (d.1913).
- 24 November - Richard Croker, politician in America and a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall (d.1922).
- 25 December - Albert Cashier, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, physically female, but lived as a man (d.1915).
- 28 December - George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian (d.1898).
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[edit] Deaths
- 19 February - Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor (b.1796).
- 11 May - William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey, politician and statesman (b.1783)[2].
- 10 August - Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (b.1775).
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- Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (b.1773).
