1795 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1795 in Ireland.
Incumbent
[edit]Events
[edit]- 5 June – the Royal College of St Patrick established at Maynooth by Act of Grattan's Parliament to provide university-level education for Roman Catholic ecclesiastical and lay students.
- 15 September – a group of workers felling timber on the estate of Lord Carysfort in County Wicklow discover gold, leading to the Wicklow gold rush.[1][2][3]
- 21 September
- Battle of the Diamond, a violent confrontation between the Catholic Defenders and Protestants including Peep o' Day Boys, Orange Boys and local tenant farmers, takes place near Loughgall, County Armagh.
- The Loyal Orange Institution (Orange Order) is formed in County Armagh following the Battle of the Diamond.[4]
- William Pitt, Prime Minister of Great Britain, replaces the popular and liberal Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Fitzwilliam, with Earl Camden,[5] an opponent of Catholic Emancipation whose arrival in Dublin is greeted with riots.
- Society of the United Irishmen members including Theobald Wolfe Tone and Henry Joy McCracken meet at Cavehill to the north of Belfast.
- The town of Louisburgh, County Mayo, is established by Lord Altamount of Westport to house Catholic refugees fleeing sectarian conflict in the north of Ireland.
- The first Wexford bridge across the River Slaney in the town of Wexford, built by the American Lemuel Cox in wood, is completed.[6]
- National Botanic Gardens opened by the Royal Dublin Society.
Arts and literature
[edit]- William Drennan writes the ballad Erin.[7]
Births
[edit]- 5 May – James Haughton, social reformer and temperance activist (died 1873).
- 20 May – Francis Murphy, first Roman Catholic bishop of Adelaide, South Australia (died 1858).
- 18 July – Hugh Boyd M‘Neile, Anglican churchman (died 1879).
- 16 November – Lord Kingsborough, antiquarian (died 1837).
- Full date unknown – George Darley, poet, novelist and critic (died 1846).
Deaths
[edit]- 14 February – Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, peer (born 1724).
- March – Thomas Conway, soldier (born 1735), in England.
- 22 April – Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, poet (born 1715).
- 11 September – Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, landowner and politician (born 1726).
References
[edit]- ^ King, Anthony (2013-03-21). "The Wicklow gold rush". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- ^ Vines, Gail (2007-01-24). "Histories: The hunt for the Wicklow gold". New Scientist. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- ^ McArdle 2011, p. 10.
- ^ "Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
- ^ "No. 13759". The London Gazette. 10 March 1795. p. 229.
- ^ "The Bridges of Wexford". Ask about Ireland. 2012-12-30. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
- ^ McBride, I. R. (2004). "Drennan, William (1754–1820)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8046. Retrieved 2013-08-19. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
Sources
[edit]- McArdle, Peadar (2011). Gold Frenzy: The Story of Wicklow's Gold. Swinford: Albertine Kennedy Publishing. ISBN 0-906002-08-7.