1857 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1857 in Ireland.

Events

• 27 March–24 April - General election.
• 12 July - In Belfast, confrontations between crowds of Catholics and Protestants turn into 10 days of rioting, exacerbated by the open-air preaching of Evangelical Presbyterian minister "Roaring" Hugh Hanna, with many of the police force joining the Protestant side. There are also riots in Derry, Portadown and Lurgan.
• 4 October - The Catholic St. Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny, is opened.
• The Natural History Museum is opened by the Royal Dublin Society.
• Dublin Zoo's lions breed for the first time.
• Scrabo Tower erected above Newtownards as a memorial to Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854).
• Tom Gallaher sets up the Gallaher tobacco business in Derry.

Births

• 7 February - Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (died 1952).
• 12 February - Margaret Pearse, Fianna Fáil politician, mother of Patrick Pearse and Willie Pearse (died 1932).
• 11 March - Tom Clarke, nationalist, rebel and organiser of the Easter Rising (executed 1916).
• 17 April - Jane Barlow, poet and novelist (died 1917).
• 19 April - Patrick Stone, Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (died 1942).
• 20 April - Thomas Myles, surgeon, Home Ruler, involved in importation of arms for the Irish Volunteers in 1914 (died 1937).
• 19 May - William Morgan Jellett, Irish Unionist MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom (died 1936).
• 1 August - Alan Joseph Adamson, politician in Canada (died 1928).
• 22 August - William Dowler Morris, mayor of Ottawa (died 1931).
• 5 October - Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish language writer (died 1942)
• 1 November
  • W. H. Grattan Flood, musicologist and historian (died 1928).
  • John Joly, physicist (died 1933).
• 18 November - Stanhope Forbes, painter (died 1947).
• 20 November - Sir Henry Robinson, 1st Baronet, civil servant (died 1927).
• Full date unknown - T. W. Rolleston, writer, poet and translator (died 1920).

Deaths

• 29 January - John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea (born 1830).
• 3 March - William Brown, creator and first admiral of the Argentine Navy (born 1777).
• 9 April - Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (born 1830).
• 11 July - John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa (born 1811).
• 27 July - Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (born 1797).
• 10 August - John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (born 1780).
• 19 September - John Purcell, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India, later killed in action (born 1814).
• 23 September - John Nicholson, military hero in India (born 1822).
• 17 December - Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale (born 1774).