1849 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1849 in Ireland.

• 30–31 March – Doolough Tragedy: At least 16 died when hundreds of the destitute and starving were forced to make a fatiguing journey on foot to receive outdoor relief in County Mayo.^[1]
• 21 April – Great Famine: 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse died over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high. This year's potato crop again failed and there were renewed outbreaks of cholera.^[2]
• 12 July – Dolly's Brae conflict: Up to 1,400 armed Orangemen marched from Rathfriland to Tollymore Park near Castlewellan, County Down. When 1,000 armed Ribbonmen gathered, shots were fired, Catholic homes were burnt and about eighty Catholics killed.^[3]
• 16 July – The Donaghadee to Portpatrick packet service was withdrawn.^[4]
• 2–12 August – Queen Victoria visited Cork, Dublin, and Belfast,^[5] landing on 3 August at Cove, which was renamed Queenstown in her honour, and departing from Kingstown. She officially opened Queen's Bridge in Belfast.
• 18 October – The Great Southern and Western Railway opened to Cork.^[6][7]
• Construction began on the 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry, on the Dublin-Belfast railway line (opened in 1852).
• George Boole was appointed as first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork.^[8]
• William Thompson began publication (in London) of The Natural History of Ireland, with the first volume on birds.

• 31 January – Robert James McMordie, solicitor, politician and Lord Mayor of Belfast (died 1914).
• 12 February – John Edward Robinson, Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (died 1922).
• 18 May – John Clark, boxer (died 1922).
• 4 July – John Stanislaus Joyce, businessman, civil servant, and father of the writer James Joyce (died 1931).^[9]
• 9 July – Robert McCall, lawyer (died 1934).
• 1 August – William Larminie, poet and folklorist (died 1900).
• 16 August – James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington, businessman and philanthropist (died 1935).
• 24 October – Nugent Everard, soldier, Seanad member (died 1929).
• 19 November – James Mason, chess player and writer (died 1905).
• 12 December – Peter F. Collier, publisher (died 1909)
• Charles James O'Donnell, colonial administrator and MP (died 1934).

• 21 January – Anthony Manahan, businessman and politician in Upper Canada (born 1794).
• 26 January – Thomas Arbuthnot, British military officer (born 1776).
• 7 March – Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry, Whig politician (born 1774).
• 27 March – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, MP, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America (born 1776).
• 22 May – Maria Edgeworth, novelist (born 1767).
• 28 May – Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist (born 1797).
• 20 June – James Clarence Mangan, poet (born 1803) (cholera).
• September – Daniel Robertson, architect and garden designer (born c. 1770 in British North America).
• 27 December – James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer (born 1807).