1858 in Ireland

Events from the year 1858 in Ireland.

Events

 * 17 March – In Dublin, James Stephens founds the revolutionary organisation which becomes known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
 * Edward Harland, at this time general manager, buys the small shipyard on Queen's Island, Belfast, from his employer Robert Hickson in conjunction with Gustav Wilhelm Wolff.
 * Ballinacourty lighthouse at Dungarvan harbour built.

Arts and literature

 * First free public library in Ireland opens in Dundalk.

Births

 * 11 January – Mildred Anne Butler, painter (died 1941).
 * 13 February – James Murray Irwin, British Army doctor (died 1938).
 * 6 March – Coslett Herbert Waddell, priest and botanist (died 1919).
 * 11 March – Tom Clarke, republican (born in England; executed 1916).
 * 2 May – Edith Anna Somerville, novelist (died 1949).
 * 19 May – Mike Cleary, boxer (died 1893).
 * 5 October – Thomas Cusack, Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois (died 1926).
 * Full date unknown
 * Anne Marjorie Robinson, artist (died 1924).

Deaths

 * 4 March – John Ryan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India, killed in action (born 1823).
 * 26 April – Francis Murphy, first Roman Catholic bishop of Adelaide, South Australia (born 1795).
 * 22 July – Mary Aikenhead, founder of the Sisters of Charity (born 1787).
 * 28 July – Alexander Wright, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (born 1826).
 * 17 August – Robert Cane, doctor, member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation, Mayor of Kilkenny (born 1807).
 * Full date unknown
 * John Hogan, sculptor (born 1800).
 * Benjamin Lett, bomber and arsonist in America and Canada (born 1813).
 * James Roche Verling, British Army surgeon, became personal surgeon to Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena (born 1787).