{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{more citations needed|date=January 2014}} {{YearInIrelandNav | 1864 }} Events from the year '''1864 in Ireland'''.
==Events== * 1 January – civil registry of births, deaths and marriages replaces parish church registers. * 30 January – opening of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. * May – Theobald Jones presents his ''Report on the progress made in collecting the Irish lichens'' to the Natural History Society of Dublin. *8 August – The first stage of the O'Connell Monument, Dublin's construction is achieved with the installation of a two-ton Dalkey granite foundation stone by Lord Mayor of Dublin Peter Paul McSwiney (a distant relative of O'Connell's).<ref name = DC>{{cite web |title=History of Monuments - O'Connell Street Area|url=https://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/media/file-uploads/2018-05/history_monuments_oconnell_st.pdf |website=Dublin City Council |access-date=2024-05-27}}</ref><ref name=PPM>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/mcswiney-peter-paul-a5761|title=McSwiney, Peter Paul|work=Dictionary of Irish Biography|last2=Boylan|first2=Sean|last=Quinn|first=James|access-date=27 May 2024}}</ref> * December – Jane Wilde is found to have libelled Mary Travers; Travers is awarded only a nominal farthing in damages but Lady and the newly knighted Sir William Wilde have to pay substantial costs. * Foundation of the Munster Bank, later rescued as the Munster & Leinster Bank, a constituent of Allied Irish Banks. [[File:National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square Entrance Façade.jpg|thumb|173x173px|National Gallery of Ireland]]
==Arts and literature== *Sheridan Le Fanu publishes the Gothic locked room mystery-thriller ''Uncle Silas'' (serialized July–December in his ''Dublin University Magazine'' as "Maud Ruthyn and Uncle Silas"; published December as a three-volume novel by Richard Bentley in London).<ref>{{cite book|last=McCormack|first=W. J.|year=1997|title=Sheridan Le Fanu|location=Stroud|publisher=Sutton Publishing|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7509-1489-0}}</ref> *November – Samuel Ferguson publishes his collected poems ''Lays of the Western Gael''.
==Births== *1 January – John Mahony, Kerry hurler (died 1943). *31 January – Matilda Cullen Knowles, lichenologist (died 1933). *13 February – Stephen Gwynn, journalist, writer, poet and Nationalist politician (died 1950). *22 February – Michael Donohoe, Democrat U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (died 1958). *4 March – Daniel Mannix, Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years (died 1963). *5 May – Henry Wilson, British Field Marshal and Conservative Party politician (killed by the Irish Republican Army 1922 in England). *11 May – Ethel Lilian Voynich, née Boole, novelist and composer (died 1960). *16 July – Joseph O'Mara, opera singer (died 1927). *1 September – Roger Casement, British diplomat, nationalist, poet and Irish revolutionary, executed at Pentonville Prison (died 1916). *19 October – Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, peer and soldier (died 1915). *11 November – John Meredith, Australian Army Brigadier General (died 1942). *22 November – Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet, Unionist MP and Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland 1925–1937 (died 1944). *9 December – Willoughby Hamilton, tennis player, Wimbledon Champion in 1890 (died 1943). *21 December – James Whiteside McCay, Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments (died 1930). *;Full date unknown<!--This is a description list; please see Help:List before changing--> *:*William Gerard Barry, painter (died 1941). *:*Denis Grimes, Limerick hurler (died 1920). *:*Michael McCarthy, nationalist anticlerical lawyer (died 1928). *:*Moira O'Neill (Nesta Shakespear Higginson), poet (died 1955). *:*J. Laurie Wallace, painter (died 1953).
==Deaths== *10 January – Nicholas Callan, priest and scientist (born 1799). *20 May – John George Bowes, businessman and political figure in Canada East (b. c.1812). *18 June – William Smith O'Brien, nationalist (born 1803). *4 July – Thomas Colley Grattan, writer (born 1792). *23 July – Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1824). *27 July – Joseph Patrick Haverty, painter (born 1794). *21 November – Charles McNally, Bishop of Clogher 1844–1864 (born 1787). *30 November – Patrick Cleburne, major general in Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Franklin (born 1828). *8 December – George Boole, mathematician (born 1815). *23 December – James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (born 1804). * William Guy Wall, painter (born 1792).
==See also== *1864 in Scotland *1864 in Wales
==References== {{reflist}}
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{{Citation | author1=Heron, Denis Caulfield | title=Ireland in 1864 | publication-date=2007 | publisher=Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/25652100 | access-date=13 August 2014 }}
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