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Ireland-related events during 1845
Events from the year 1845 in Ireland .
Events
Arts and literature
Charles Lever 's novel The O'Donoghue: a tale of Ireland fifty years ago is published in Dublin and St Patrick's Eve in London.
Births
23 March –
John T. Browne ,
Mayor of Houston ,
Texas (died
1941 ).
6 April –
Edward Hardman , geologist (died
1887 ).
10 June –
David Dickson Rogers , politician in
Ontario (died
1915 ).
17 June –
Emily Lawless , writer (died 1913 in England).
1 July –
James M. Bell ,
United States Army soldier, awarded the
Medal of Honor in 1876 during the
Indian Wars (died
1901 ).
4 July –
Thomas John Barnardo , philanthropist (died
1905 ).
23 November –
Charlotte Grace O'Brien , political and social activist, writer and plant collector (died
1909 ).
Full date unknown
Deaths
22 February –
William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington , politician (born
1763 ).
28 April –
James Graham , soldier, commended for his gallantry during the
Battle of Waterloo (born
1791 ).
13 July –
Johnston Drummond , early settler of
Western Australia ,
botanical and
zoological collector (born
1820 ).
16 September –
Thomas Osborne Davis , lawyer and writer, author of the song "
A Nation Once Again " (born
1814 ).
17 December –
Armar Lowry-Corry, 3rd Earl Belmore , politician and
High Sheriff (born
1801 ).
See also
References
^
"The Census of 1841" . A Short History of Ireland .
BBC . Retrieved 2012-08-05 .
^
"The Devon Commission" . The Irish Problem and How to Solve It: An historical and critical review of the legislation and events that have led to Irish difficulties . London: Ward, Lock & Co. 1881.
ISBN
978-0-543-90762-2 . Retrieved 2012-08-05 .
^
"Phytophthora infestans " . A Short History of Ireland . BBC. Retrieved 2012-08-05 .
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 267–268.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
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b
c
d
e
Woodham-Smith, Cecil (1962). The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845–9 . pp. 50–7.
^ Ó Gráda, Cormac (2006). Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives . University College Dublin Press. pp. 7–15.
ISBN
1-904558-57-7 .
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a
b
c Kinealy, Christine (1994). This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845–52 . Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. pp. 37–46.
ISBN
0-7171-1832-0 .
^ Donnelly, James S. Jr (2005). The Great Irish Potato Famine . Stroud: Sutton Publishing. p. 49.
ISBN
0-7509-2928-6 .