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List of events
Events from the year 1824 in Ireland .
Events
Births
23 April –
William Nash , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at
Lucknow , India (died
1875 ).
28 May –
Thomas Croke ,
Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Cashel and Emly , founder patron of the
Gaelic Athletic Association (died
1902 ).
26 June –
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ,
mathematical physicist ,
engineer , and leader in the
physical sciences (died
1907 ).
August –
Thomas Laughnan , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at
Lucknow , India (died
1864 ).
1 December –
Thomas Henry Fitzgerald , farmer and politician in
Queensland , Australia (died
1888 ).
12 December –
William Joseph Corbet ,
nationalist
politician and
MP (died
1909 ).
Full date unknown
John Coghlan , public works engineer in
Argentina (died
1890 ).
Patrick Green , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at
Delhi , India (died
1889 ).
John O'Hart , genealogist (died
1902 ).
Charles Irwin , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at
Lucknow , India (died
1873 ).
John Lyons , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the
siege of Sevastopol in the
Crimean War (died
1867 ).
Edward Whelan , politician, one of the Fathers of the
Canadian Confederation (died
1867 ).
Deaths
21 January –
Charles MacCarthy , soldier in the French, Dutch and British armies, governor of various British territories in
West Africa (born
1764 ).
17 April –
William Ashford , landscape painter (born 1746 in England).
16 June –
Walter Thom , journalist (born 1770 in Scotland).
24 August –
Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl , peer (born
1752 ).
30 October –
Charles Maturin , clergyman, novelist and playwright (born
1782 ).
9 November –
Richard Annesley, 2nd Earl Annesley , politician (born
1745 ).
19 November –
Bishop James Murphy ,
Bishop of Clogher 1801–1824 (born
1744 ).
5 December –
Thomas McCord , businessman and politician in
Lower Canada (born
1750 ).
See also
References