1839 in Ireland

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Events from the year1839 in Ireland.

Events

• 6–7 January -Night of the Big Wind:a severewindstormsweeps across Ireland killing hundreds and leaving thousands homeless.
• 22 June -The Earl of Belfastlays the foundation stone for the Palm House inBelfast Botanic Gardens.
• 12 August - TheUlster Railwayis opened betweenBelfastandLisburn.
• 5 December -Uniform Fourpenny Postintroduced inUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,a major postal reform, whereby fourpence is levied for pre-paid letters up to half an ounce in weight instead of postage being calculated by distance and number of sheets of paper.

Arts and literature

• Charles Lever'sThe Confessions of Harry Lorrequeris published in Dublin.

Births

• 6 January -Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran,Anglo-Irishpeer and diplomat (died1901).
• 16 March -John Butler Yeats,artist and father ofW. B. YeatsandJack Butler Yeats(died1922).
• 27 March -John Ballance,14thPremier of New Zealand(died1893).
• 1 April -St. Clair Augustine Mulholland,American Civil Warofficer (died1910).
• 7 April -David Baird,United States Senator from New Jersey from 1918 to 1919. (died1927)
• 27 April -Charles Frederick Houghton,soldier and politician inCanada(died1898).
• 10 May -Thomas Joseph Carr,secondRoman CatholicArchbishopofMelbourne,Australia(died1917).
• 11 July -William John Hennessy,artist (died1917).
• 5 September -Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet,Liberal PartyMP(died1909).
• 4 November -Thomas MacDonald Patterson,politician and newspaper publisher in theUSA(died1916).
• 24 November -James William Adams,recipient of theVictoria Crossfor gallantry in 1879 atKilla Kazi,Afghanistan(died1903).
• 30 December -John Todhunter,poet and playwright (died1916).

Full date unknown

• William Lundon,Irish Parliamentary PartyMP(died1909).
• John Pentland Mahaffy,classicist (died1919).
• Thomas Murphy,recipient of theVictoria Crossfor bravery at sea in saving life in a storm off theAndaman Islandsin 1867 (died1900).

Deaths

• 18 November -Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye(born1758).
• Gideon Ouseley,Methodism's 'apostle to the Irish' (born1762).