{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1857 }} Events from the year '''1857 in Ireland'''.
==Events== *27 March – 24 April: General election.<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W. |editor2=Martin, F. X. |year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=376}}</ref> *12 July – in Belfast, confrontations between crowds of Catholics and Protestants turn into 10 days of rioting, exacerbated by the open-air preaching of Evangelical Presbyterian minister "Roaring" Hugh Hanna,<ref>{{cite web|first=Finlay|last=Holmes|title=Hanna, Hugh (1821–1892)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/52699|access-date=2012-07-26|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/52699}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref> with many of the police force joining the Protestant side. There are also riots in Derry, Portadown and Lurgan.<ref>{{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=2010-01-28}}</ref> *4 October – the Catholic St. Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny, is opened. *The Natural History Museum is opened by the Royal Dublin Society. *Dublin Zoo's lions breed for the first time. *Scrabo Tower erected above Newtownards as a memorial to Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854).<ref>{{cite web|first=Debbie|last=Orme|title=The History of Scrabo Tower|url=http://www.scrabotower.com/scrabo-tower.html|work=Scrabo Tower|access-date=2013-04-29}}</ref> *Tom Gallaher sets up the Gallaher tobacco business in Derry.<ref>[http://prod.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/top-100-companies/55-gallaher-13881141.html Top 100 Companies] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517001359/http://prod.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/top-100-companies/55-gallaher-13881141.html |date=2011-05-17 }}</ref> ==Births== *7 February – Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (died 1952). *12 February – Margaret Pearse, Fianna Fáil politician, mother of Patrick Pearse and Willie Pearse (died 1932). *11 March – Tom Clarke, nationalist, rebel and organiser of the Easter Rising (executed 1916). *17 April – Jane Barlow, poet and novelist (died 1917). *19 April – Patrick Stone, Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (died 1942 in Australia). *20 April – Thomas Myles, surgeon, Home Ruler, involved in importation of arms for the Irish Volunteers in 1914 (died 1937). *22 April (probable year) – Ada Rehan, actress (died 1916 in the United States). *1 May – T. W. Rolleston, writer, poet and translator (died 1920). *19 May – William Jellett, Irish Unionist MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom (died 1936). *11 July – Joseph Larmor, physicist (died 1942). *1 August – Alan Joseph Adamson, politician in Canada (died 1928). *22 August – William Dowler Morris, mayor of Ottawa (died 1931). *5 October – Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish language writer (died 1942). *29 October – John Saul, prostitute (died 1904). *1 November ** W. H. Grattan Flood, musicologist and historian (died 1928). ** John Joly, physicist (died 1933). *18 November – Stanhope Forbes, painter (died 1947 in the United Kingdom). *20 November – Sir Henry Robinson, 1st Baronet, civil servant (died 1927).
==Deaths== *29 January – John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea (born 1830). *3 March – William Brown, creator and first admiral of the Argentine Navy (born 1777). *9 April – Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (born 1830). *11 July – John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa (born 1811). *27 July – Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (born 1797). *10 August – John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (born 1780). *19 September – John Purcell, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India, later killed in action (born 1814). *23 September – John Nicholson, military hero in India (born 1822). *17 December – Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale (born 1774).
==See also== *1857 in Scotland *1857 in Wales
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