1839 in Ireland

List of events

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|  | 1839

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* 1840
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* 1842
* 1843
* 1844

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Decades:|

* 1810s
* 1820s
* 1830s
* 1840s
* 1850s

See also:| 1839 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1839
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1839 in Ireland.

## Events

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* 6-7 January - Night of the Big Wind: a severe windstorm sweeps across Ireland killing hundreds and leaving thousands homeless.
* 22 June - The Earl of Belfast lays the foundation stone for the Palm House in Belfast Botanic Gardens.[1]
* 12 August - The Ulster Railway is opened between Belfast and Lisburn.
* 5 December - Uniform Fourpenny Post introduced in United 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.[2]

## Arts and literature

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* Charles Lever's The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer is published in Dublin.

## Births

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* 6 January - Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and diplomat (died 1901).
* 16 March - John Butler Yeats, artist and father of W. B. Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats (died 1922).
* 27 March - John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand (died 1893).
* 1 April - St. Clair Augustine Mulholland, American Civil War officer (died 1910).
* 7 April - David Baird, United States Senator from New Jersey from 1918 to 1919. (died 1927)
* 27 April - Charles Frederick Houghton, soldier and politician in Canada (died 1898).
* 10 May - Thomas Joseph Carr, second Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia (died 1917).
* 11 July - William John Hennessy, artist (died 1917).
* 5 September - Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet, Liberal Party MP (died 1909).
* 4 November - Thomas MacDonald Patterson, politician and newspaper publisher in the USA (died 1916).
* 24 November - James William Adams, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Killa Kazi, Afghanistan (died 1903).
* 30 December - John Todhunter, poet and playwright (died 1916).

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* William Lundon, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (died 1909).
* John Pentland Mahaffy, classicist (died 1919).
* Thomas Murphy, recipient of the Victoria Cross for bravery at sea in saving life in a storm off the Andaman Islands in 1867 (died 1900).

## Deaths

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* 18 November - Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (born 1758).
* Gideon Ouseley, Methodism's 'apostle to the Irish' (born 1762).

## References

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1. ^ "The Palm House". The Victorian Web. 2006-09-05. Archived from the original on 2013-04-16. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
2. ^ Reynolds, Mairead (1983). A History of The Irish Post Office. Dublin: MacDonnell Whyte Ltd. pp. 61–62. ISBN 0-9502619-7-1.