# 1830 in Ireland

Events from the year 1830 in Ireland.

## Events

* February – first Roman Catholics take their seats in the House of Commons at Westminster, among them Daniel O'Connell (for County Clare) and Richard More O'Ferrall (Kildare).
* 12 July – Orange Institution parades lead to confrontations between Orangemen and Ribbonmen in Maghera and Castledawson in County Londonderry. Several Catholic homes are burned by Protestants following these clashes.
* July – potato crop failure the previous year leads to widespread famine. Food riots in Limerick and Leitrim.
* August – first Dublin Horse Show.
* November – Ribbonmen attack an Orange band, puncturing some of their drums. The Orangemen retaliate by burning the Catholic village of Maghery, County Armagh, to the ground.

### Undated

*   * The Remonstrant Synod of Ulster is formed by non-subscribing Presbyterians.
*   * T. & A. Mulholland open the 8000-spindle York Street flax mill in Belfast.
*   * Austins established in the Diamond, Derry. At closure in 2016 it will be the world's oldest independent department store.
*   * Sir Jonah Barrington (being resident in France to avoid his creditors) is removed from the judiciary following an Address to the King by both Houses of Parliament, a unique event.
*   * William Carleton publishes Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry and Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman, a fictionalised account of the Wildgoose Lodge Murders of 1816.
*   * The private Markree Observatory is set up.

## Births

* 1 January – William James Lendrim, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the Siege of Sevastopol, Crimea (died 1891).
* 10 April – John Sullivan, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1884).
* 1 May – Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, labor and community organizer, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and Socialist in America (died 1930).
* 12 May – Maurice O'Rorke, politician and Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives (died 1916).
* 25 May – Hugh Nelson, politician in Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia (died 1893).
* 23 July – John O' Leary, Fenian poet (died 1907).
* 12 August – John O'Connor, painter (died 1889).
* 29 August – Charles Bowen, politician in New Zealand (died 1917).
* 16 September – Patrick Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney (died 1911).
* 20 September – Arthur Thomas Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at the Battle of Khushab, Persia (died 1913).
* 20 September – Hans Garrett Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1877 at Komgha, South Africa (died 1889).
* October – John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea (died 1857).
* 22 November – Justin McCarthy, politician, historian and novelist (died 1912).
* 24 December – Harry Hammon Lyster, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Calpee, India (died 1922).

### Full date unknown

*   * Brian Dillon, Fenian leader (d. c1872).
*   * Robert Dwyer Joyce, music collector and writer (died 1883).
*   * Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (died 1857).
*   * William R. Roberts, diplomat, Fenian Society member and United States Representative from New York (died 1897).
*   * Eyre Massey Shaw, superintendent of the (London) Metropolitan Fire Brigade (died 1908).

## Deaths

* 26 June – George IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1762).
* 11 October – Richard John Uniacke, lawyer, politician, member of Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly and Attorney General of Nova Scotia (born 1753).