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List of events
Events from the year 1840 in Ireland .
Events
Arts and literature
Edward Bunting 's The Ancient Music of Ireland is published, incorporating "A Dissertation on the Irish Harp and Harpers, Including an Account of the Old Melodies of Ireland".
Births
1 January –
Patrick Walsh , journalist, politician and mayor of
Augusta, Georgia (died
1899 ).
4 January –
Bishop Richard Owens ,
Bishop of Clogher 1894–1909 (died
1909 ).
8 January –
Henry Arthur Blake ,
British colonial administrator and Governor of
Hong Kong (died
1918 ).
17 January –
William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick , peer (died
1896 ).
27 February –
Thomas Kelly-Kenny ,
British Army general who served in the
Second Boer War (died
1914 ).
29 February –
John Philip Holland , engineer, developed the first
Royal Navy
submarine (died
1914 ).
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25 March –
Myles Keogh , officer in
American Civil War , later in
U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment , killed at the
Battle of the Little Bighorn (died
1876 ).
26 April (bapt.) –
Paddy Hannan ,
gold prospector whose discovery in 1893 near
Kalgoorlie ,
Western Australia set off a
gold rush (died
1925 ).
27 April –
Tom Gallaher ,
tobacco manufacturer (died
1927 ).
23 May –
George Throssell , second
Premier of Western Australia (died
1910 ).
20 September –
Ellen Mary Clerke , author, journalist, poet and science writer (died
1906 ).
1 November –
Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun , businessman, politician, and philanthropist (died
1915 ).
17 November –
Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse , eighteenth
Chancellor of the University of Dublin (d.(
1908 ).
28 December –
Thomas Hovenden , artist and teacher (died
1895 ).
Full date unknown
Deaths
See also
References