1865 in Ireland

Events from the year 1865 in Ireland.

Events

23 July – the sets out from Valentia Island on the first attempt to lay the transatlantic telegraph cable.
Methodist College Belfast founded by the church; it will open to pupils in 1868.
Work begins on the building of the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial to Queen Victoria's late Prince Consort, Prince Albert.

Arts and literature

9 May – International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures opens in Dublin.
23 December – Gustavus Vaughan Brooke concludes a farewell season in Belfast, playing the title role in Richard III.
Augustus Burke paints Connemara Girl.

Deaths

6 February – Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer.
16 March – Patsy Donovan, Major League Baseball player and manager.
17 March – Patrick Joseph Sullivan, mayor of Casper, Wyoming and Republican member of the United States Senate from Wyoming.
20 April – James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922.
4 May – Charles A. Callis, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
7 May – John MacBride, nationalist rebel and Easter Rising leader.
8 May – Charles FitzClarence, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 near Mafeking, South Africa.
10 June – Dermod O'Brien, painter.
13 June – W. B. Yeats, poet and dramatist.
18 June – Henry Allan, painter.
24 June – Harry Plunket Greene, baritone.
15 July – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper and publishing magnate
16 July – 'George A. Birmingham', novelist
29 August – Thomas Kent, nationalist rebel.
4 September – Alice Milligan, nationalist and poet.
16 October – Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, British Army commander in World War I, later Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Field Marshal.
12 November – Herbert Trench, poet.
;Full date unknown
:*Grace Rhys, née Little, novelist.
:*Robert Henry Woods, Irish Unionist MP.

Births

1 April – John Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart, Conservative politician..
23 May – Benjamin Holmes, businessman and politician in Quebec.
14 July – Nathaniel Burslem, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in.

MOVE FROM *1865* TO 1789 *25 July – Dr James Barry, military surgeon, revealed on death to be a woman, probably Margaret Ann Bulkley.

31 August – John Farrell, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade.
2 September – William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.
;Full date unknown
:*Jones Quain, anatomist.