1858 in Ireland
Events from the year 1858 in Ireland.
Events
- 17 March – In Dublin, James Stephens founds the revolutionary organisation which becomes known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
- Edward Harland, at this time general manager, buys the small shipyard on Queen's Island, Belfast, from his employer Robert Hickson in conjunction with Gustav Wilhelm Wolff.
- Ballinacourty lighthouse at Dungarvan harbour built.
Arts and literature
- First free public library in Ireland opens in Dundalk.
Births
- 11 January – Mildred Anne Butler, painter.
- 13 February – James Murray Irwin, British Army doctor.
- 6 March – Coslett Herbert Waddell, priest and botanist.
- 11 March – Tom Clarke, republican.
- 2 May – Edith Anna Somerville, novelist.
- 19 May – Mike Cleary, boxer.
- 5 October – Thomas Cusack, Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois.
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Anne Marjorie Robinson, artist.
Deaths
- 4 March – John Ryan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, killed in action.
- 26 April – Francis Murphy, first Roman Catholic bishop of Adelaide, South Australia.
- 22 July – Mary Aikenhead, founder of the Sisters of Charity.
- 28 July – Alexander Wright, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea.
- 17 August – Robert Cane, doctor, member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation, Mayor of Kilkenny.
- ;Full date unknown
- :*John Hogan, sculptor.
- :*Benjamin Lett, bomber and arsonist in America and Canada.
- :*James Roche Verling, British Army surgeon, became personal surgeon to Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena.