Events from the year 1859 in Ireland.
Events
Births
- 3 January â Maurice Healy, lawyer, politician and MP (died 1923).
- 30 January â Tony Mullane, Major League Baseball player (died 1944).
- 1 February â Victor Herbert, composer, cellist and conductor (died 1924).
- 11 February â Barry Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore, nobleman and officer (died 1885).
- February â James Murray, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Elandsfontein, near Pretoria, South Africa (died 1942).
- 13 April â Daniel Gallery, politician in Canada (died 1920).
- 22 April â Ada Rehan, Shakespearean actress (died 1916 in the United States).
- 4 May â William Hamilton, cricketer (died 1914).
- 16 October â Daisy Bates, née Margaret Dwyer, anthropologist (died 1951 in Australia).
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Francis Fitzpatrick, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 during an attack on Sekukuni's Town, South Africa (died 1933).
- :*Thomas Houghton, Anglican Clergyman and editor of the Gospel Magazine (died 1951).
- :*Edward Martyn, playwright and activist (died 1923).
- :*Justin Huntly McCarthy, politician and author (died 1936).
- :*Walter Osborne, painter (died 1903).
- :*Henry Jones Thaddeus, painter (died 1929).
Deaths
See also
References