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List of events
The Irish Tricolour
Events from the year 1848 in Ireland .
Events
Ongoing –
Great Famine :
Potato blight returns and outbreaks of
cholera are reported.
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Early – publication of the first complete parallel-text edition of
Annals of the Four Masters begins in Dublin as Annála Ríoghachta Éireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616. Edited from MSS in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy and of Trinity College Dublin with a translation and copious notes by
John O'Donovan .
February –
John Mitchel publishes The
United Irishman , a weekly
Irish nationalist
newspaper . It is suppressed and Mitchel arrested and convicted under the
Treason Felony Act 1848 on 26 May and sentenced to
transportation to
Australia .
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[3]
7 March –
Thomas Francis Meagher flies the
Irish Tricolour in
Waterford , the first recorded usage of the flag which is now the national flag of the Republic of Ireland.
25 April –
Andrew Graham discovers
asteroid
9 Metis from politician
Edward Joshua Cooper 's private
Markree Observatory in
County Sligo , the first (and until
2008 only) discovery from Ireland of a
minor planet .
12 May –
Waterford and Kilkenny Railway opens between
Kilkenny and
Thomastown .
[4]
June – medical students
Kevin Izod O'Doherty and
Richard D'Alton Williams , and chemist
Thomas Antisell , publish the Irish Tribune , a weekly Irish nationalist newspaper. It is suppressed after five issues and the editors arrested on 10 July. O'Doherty is convicted under the Treason Felony Act after a third trial on 30 October and sentenced to transportation to Australia; Williams is acquitted two days later.
[5]
July – famine victims on
outdoor relief peak this month at almost 840,000 people.
[1]
22 July – Government suspends
habeas corpus , thus
Young Irelanders can be imprisoned on proclamation without trial.
29 July –
Young Irelander Rebellion at
Ballingarry in
County Tipperary is broken up by the
Irish Constabulary .
[6]
October – Patrick Kennedy (1823–1858) starts out from
County Wexford to
emigrate to the
United States where he will establish the politically significant
Kennedy family .
Completion of
palm houses at
Kew Gardens ,
London , and the
National Botanic Gardens ,
Glasnevin , by
Richard Turner of
Dublin .
Origin, in
Grafton Street , Dublin, of the
Brown Thomas department store chain.
Arts and literature
Births
3 January –
Rose La Touche , muse of
John Ruskin (died
1875 ).
18 February –
Samuel Jacob Jackson , politician in
Canada (died
1942 ).
1 March –
Augustus Saint-Gaudens , sculptor (died
1907 ).
22 March –
Sarah Purser , painter and stained-glass maker (died
1943 ).
2 April –
O'Moore Creagh , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at
Kam Dakka ,
Afghanistan (died
1923 ).
5 May –
John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer , lawyer and politician in
Canada (died
1914 ).
12 May –
James E. Morin , merchant and politician in
Ontario .
11 June –
Reginald Clare Hart , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 in the
Bazar Valley ,
Afghanistan (died
1931 ).
29 June –
Paul Boyton , extreme water sports pioneer (died
1924 in the United States ).
28 July –
James Cooney , lawyer and
Democratic politician in
Missouri (died
1904 in the United States ).
10 August –
William Harnett , painter (died
1892 ).
14 August –
Margaret Lindsay Huggins , astronomer (died 1915)
28 August –
Francis O'Neill , Chicago police officer and collector of
Irish traditional music (died
1936 in the United States ).
4 September –
George Edward Dobson , zoologist, photographer and army surgeon (died
1895 ).
5 October –
T. P. O'Connor , journalist and
Member of Parliament (died
1929 ).
Deaths
See also
References