1795 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1795 in Ireland.
Events
- 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.
- 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.[1]
- William Pitt, Prime Minister of Great Britain, replaces the popular and liberal Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Fitzwilliam, with Earl Camden,[2] 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.[3]
- National Botanic Gardens opened by the Royal Dublin Society.
Arts and literature
- William Drennan writes the ballad Erin.[4]
Births
- 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).
- Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager (died 1841).
Deaths
- 14 February - Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, peer (born 1724).
- 22 April - Tadhg Gaedhealach O Suilleabhan, poet.
- 11 September - Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, landowner and politician (born 1726).
References
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 13759. p. 229. 10 March 1795.
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