1859 in Ireland

Events from the year 1859 in Ireland.

Events

29 March – The Irish Times is first published, in Dublin.
28 April–18 May – United Kingdom general election in Ireland produces a Tory majority in Irish seats.
30 April – American ship Pomona carrying, mainly Irish, emigrants from Liverpool to New York, is wrecked on a sandbank at Ballyconigar, off Wexford, with 424 deaths and only 24 survivors.
Evangelical Ulster Revival.
John Sisk establishes his building construction business in Cork.

3 January – Maurice Healy, lawyer, politician and MP.
30 January – Tony Mullane, Major League Baseball player.
1 February – Victor Herbert, composer, cellist and conductor.
11 February – Barry Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore, nobleman and officer.
February – James Murray, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Elandsfontein, near Pretoria, South Africa.
13 April – Daniel Gallery, politician in Canada.
22 April – Ada Rehan, Shakespearean actress.
4 May – William Hamilton, cricketer.
16 October – Daisy Bates, née Margaret Dwyer, anthropologist.
;Full date unknown
:*Francis Fitzpatrick, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 during an attack on Sekukuni's Town, South Africa.
:*Thomas Houghton, Anglican Clergyman and editor of the Gospel Magazine.
:*Edward Martyn, playwright and activist.
:*Justin Huntly McCarthy, politician and author.
:*Walter Osborne, painter.
:*Henry Jones Thaddeus, painter.

14 April – Lady Morgan, novelist.
3 November – George Forrest, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 at Delhi, India.
29 April – Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer.
;Full date unknown
:*Peter McManus, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross.