1830 in Ireland

{{short description|none}}  {{YearInIrelandNav | 1830 }} Events from the year '''1830 in Ireland'''. ==Events== *February – first Roman Catholics take their seats in the House of Commons at Westminster, among them Daniel O'Connell (for County Clare) and Richard More O'Ferrall (Kildare).<ref>{{cite book|first=D. R.|last=Fisher|series=History of Parliament|title=The House of Commons, 1820–1832|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2009|volume=VI|pages=535–6}}</ref> *12 July – Orange Institution parades lead to confrontations between Orangemen and Ribbonmen in Maghera and Castledawson in County Londonderry. Several Catholic homes are burned by Protestants following these clashes.<ref name="CA">{{cite web|title=Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events|work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm|access-date=28 January 2010}}</ref> *July – potato crop failure the previous year leads to widespread famine. Food riots in Limerick and Leitrim. *August – first Dublin Horse Show. *November – Ribbonmen attack an Orange band, puncturing some of their drums. The Orangemen retaliate by burning the Catholic village of Maghery, County Armagh, to the ground.<ref name="CA"/> *;Undated *:* The Remonstrant Synod of Ulster is formed by non-subscribing Presbyterians. *:* T. & A. Mulholland open the 8000-spindle York Street flax mill in Belfast.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Irish Linen|url=http://www.fergusonsirishlinen.com/pages/index.asp?title2=History-of-Irish-Linen&title1=About-Linen|publisher=Thomas Ferguson Irish Linen|year=2009|access-date=2012-04-05}}</ref> *:* Austins established in the Diamond, Derry. At closure in 2016 it will be the world's oldest independent department store.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austinsstore.com/Pages/about_us/seven_generations|first=Norman|last=Hamill|title=About Us – Seven Generations|publisher=Austins|year=2008|access-date=2010-11-05|archive-date=2009-06-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612005323/http://www.austinsstore.com/Pages/about_us/seven_generations|url-status=dead}}</ref> *:* Sir Jonah Barrington (being resident in France to avoid his creditors) is removed from the judiciary following an Address to the King by both Houses of Parliament, a unique event. *:* William Carleton publishes ''Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry'' and ''Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman'', a fictionalised account of the Wildgoose Lodge Murders of 1816. *:* The private Markree Observatory is set up.

==Births== *1 January – William James Lendrim, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the Siege of Sevastopol, Crimea (died 1891). *10 April – John Sullivan, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1884). *12 May – Maurice O'Rorke, politician and Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives (died 1916). *25 May – Hugh Nelson, politician in Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia (died 1893). *23 July – John O' Leary, Fenian poet (died 1907).<ref>O'Day, Alan. "O'Leary, John (1830–1907)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006.</ref> *12 August – John O'Connor, painter (died 1889). *29 August – Charles Bowen, politician in New Zealand (died 1917). *16 September – Patrick Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney (died 1911). *20 September – Arthur Thomas Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at the Battle of Khushab, Persia (died 1913). *20 September – Hans Garrett Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1877 at Komgha, South Africa (died 1889). *October – John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea (died 1857). *22 November – Justin McCarthy, politician, historian and novelist (died 1912). *24 December – Harry Hammon Lyster, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Calpee, India (died 1922). *;Full date unknown *:*Brian Dillon, Fenian leader (d. c1872). *:*Robert Dwyer Joyce, music collector and writer (died 1883). *:*Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1857). *:*William R. Roberts, diplomat, Fenian Society member and United States Representative from New York (died 1897). *:*Eyre Massey Shaw, superintendent of the (London) Metropolitan Fire Brigade (died 1908).

==Deaths== *26 June – George IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1762). *11 October – Richard John Uniacke, lawyer, politician, member of Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly and Attorney General of Nova Scotia (born 1753).

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