1828 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1828 in Ireland.

Events

• In the election in County Clare, Daniel O'Connell wins the seat, with the Catholic Association.^[1]
• Belfast Botanic Gardens opens as the private Royal Belfast Botanical Gardens.

Births

• 1 January - Richard Phelan, fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (died 1904 in the United States).
• 28 January - William Gorman Wills, dramatist and painter (died 1891).
• 21 March - William Davis Ardagh, lawyer, judge and politician in Canada (died 1893 in the United States).
• March - Patrick Cleburne, major general in Confederate States Army in the American Civil War (killed at the Battle of Franklin, 1864 in the United States).
• 23 April - Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer (died 1892).
• 28 April - Wingfield W. Watson, leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite) (died 1922 in the United States).
• 9 May - Charles Kickham, Irish revolutionary, novelist, poet, journalist (died 1882).
• 11 May - William Walsh, U.S. Congressman in Maryland (died 1892 in the United States).
• 15 June - Thomas Newenham Deane, architect (died 1899).
• 27 June
  • Cornelius Coughlan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1915).
  • Bryan O'Loghlen, politician in Australia, 13th Premier of Victoria (died 1905 in Australia).
• 26 August - William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin (died 1897).
• 22 September - Canon James Goodman, Irish music collector (died 1896).
• 22 November - Lydia Shackleton, botanical artist (died 1914).
• 27 November - Samuel Mullen, bookseller (died 1890).
• 31 December - Fitz James O'Brien, author (died 1862).

Full date unknown

• John Holmes, surveyor and politician in Ontario (died 1879 in New Zealand).
• Joshua Spencer Thompson, Liberal-Conservative politician in Canada (died 1880 in Canada).

Deaths

• 9 January - Alexander Arbuthnot, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (born 1768).
• 29 June - Samuel Forde, painter from Cork (born 1805).
• 23 August - John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, politician and Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1740).

References

1. Moody, TW; Martin, FX, eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork, Ireland: The Mercier Press. p. 254.