1843 in Ireland

Events

• January - Daniel O'Connell proclaims 1843 as the "Repeal Year".
• 21 February - Repeal (of the Act of Union) debate in Dublin Corporation.
• 11 June - Series of monster meetings to agitate for repeal begins at Tuam.
• 11 June - O'Connell's "Mallow defiance".
• 15 August - Repeal meeting at Tara.
• 7 October - O'Connell gives in to government prohibition of Clontarf meeting planned for the next day.
• Daniel O'Connell charged with conspiracy.
• November - Devon Commission appointed to research the problems with land leases.
• Work started on the building of Crumlin Road (HM Prison) in Belfast.

Births

• 11 January - C. Y. O'Connor, engineer in Australia (d.1902).
• 3 May - Edward Dowden, critic and poet (d.1913).
• 24 November - Richard Croker, politician in America and a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall (d.1922).
• 25 December - Albert Cashier, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, physically female, but lived as a man (d.1915).
• 28 December - George Thomas Stokes, ecclesiastical historian (d.1898).

Full date unknown

• George Fisher, Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand (d.1905).

Deaths

• 19 February - Michael Joseph Quin, author, journalist and editor (b.1796).
• 11 May - William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey, politician and statesman (b.1783).
• 10 August - Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (b.1775).

Full date unknown

• Abraham Colles, professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (b.1773).

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