# 1852 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1852 in Ireland.

## Events

* 5 January – the troopship HMS Birkenhead boards British Army recruits at Queenstown. It has insufficient lifeboats.
* 26 February – the Birkenhead founders off the coast of South Africa. The soldiers stand to attention while women and children are placed in the lifeboats.
* 10 June
** The 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry on the Dublin-Belfast railway line is opened (construction began in 1849).
** The Irish Industrial Exhibition is opened in Cork.
* 1 October – Patent Law Amendment Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, merging the English, Scottish and Irish patent systems.
* Eglington Pauper Lunatic Asylum opened in Cork.
* End of the Great Famine. In the period it has lasted since 1845, one million people have emigrated from Ireland. The Irish now make up a quarter of the population of Liverpool, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore; and a half of Toronto.
* Tenant farmer Michael O'Regan emigrates from County Tipperary to London. He will become paternal great-grandfather to Ronald Reagan, President of the United States.
Full date unknown
* Samuel Kelly established his coal merchant's business as Samuel Kelly Coal Merchant on the Coal Quay, Belfast.

## Arts and literature

* Edmund Falconer produces his first collection of poems Man’s Mission: A Pilgrimage to Glory’s Goal whilst working as a jobbing actor.

## Sport

* Curragh golf course is laid out, the first in Ireland.
* Leinster Cricket Club is founded in Rathgar.

## Births

* 25 January – Nevill Coghill, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Isandhlwana, South Africa (died 1879).
* 28 January – Louis Brennan, inventor (died 1932).
* 2 February – Lawrence E. McGann, Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois (died 1928).
* 24 February – George Moore, novelist, poet, art critic and dramatist (died 1933).
* 29 February – Frank Gavan Duffy, fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (died 1936).
* 15 March – Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist and folklorist (died 1932).
* 17 March – Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest, author and political activist (died 1913).
* 27 March – Jim Connell, political activist, writer of The Red Flag (died 1929).
* 9 April (bapt.) – Laurence Ginnell, nationalist, lawyer and politician, member of 1st Dáil (died 1923).
* 28 July – Barton McGuckin, tenor singer (died 1913).
* 30 September – Charles Villiers Stanford, composer (died 1924).
* 2 October – William O'Brien, nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher and author (died 1928).

## Deaths

* 25 February – Thomas Moore, poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer (born 1779).
* 25 April – Arthur O'Connor, United Irishman and later general in Napoleon's army (born 1763).
* 8 May – Charles Rowan, joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police (b. c1782).
* 14 September – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman (born 1769).

### Full date unknown

*   * Edward Bransfield, master in the Royal Navy (born 1785).
*   * William Thompson, naturalist (born 1805).
*   * Elliot Warburton, travel writer and novelist (born 1810).