1857 in Ireland
Events from the year 1857 in Ireland.Events
Sport
Births
- 7 February – Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician.
- 12 February – Margaret Pearse, Fianna Fáil politician, mother of Patrick Pearse and Willie Pearse.
- 11 March – Tom Clarke, nationalist, rebel and organiser of the Easter Rising.
- 17 April – Jane Barlow, poet and novelist.
- 19 April – Patrick Stone, Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly.
- 20 April – Thomas Myles, surgeon, Home Ruler, involved in importation of arms for the Irish Volunteers in 1914.
- 22 April – Ada Rehan, actress.
- 1 May – T. W. Rolleston, writer, poet and translator.
- 19 May – William Morgan Jellett, Irish Unionist MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
- 11 July – Joseph Larmor, physicist.
- 1 August – Alan Joseph Adamson, politician in Canada.
- 22 August – William Dowler Morris, mayor of Ottawa.
- 5 October – Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish language writer.
- 1 November
- * W. H. Grattan Flood, musicologist and historian.
- * John Joly, physicist.
- 18 November – Stanhope Forbes, painter.
- 20 November – Sir Henry Robinson, 1st Baronet, civil servant.
Deaths
- 29 January – John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea.
- 3 March – William Brown, creator and first admiral of the Argentine Navy.
- 9 April – Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea.
- 11 July – John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa.
- 27 July – Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian.
- 10 August – John Wilson Croker, statesman and author.
- 19 September – John Purcell, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India, later killed in action.
- 23 September – John Nicholson, military hero in India.
- 17 December – Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale.