1859 in Ireland

Events from the year 1859 in Ireland.

Events

 * 29 March – The Irish Times is first published, in Dublin.
 * 28 April–18 May – United Kingdom general election in Ireland produces a Tory majority in Irish seats.
 * 30 April – American ship Pomona carrying, mainly Irish, emigrants from Liverpool to New York, is wrecked on a sandbank at Ballyconigar, off Wexford, with 424 deaths and only 24 survivors.
 * Evangelical Ulster Revival.
 * John Sisk establishes his building construction business in Cork.

Births

 * 3 January – Maurice Healy, lawyer, politician and MP (died 1923).
 * 30 January – Tony Mullane, Major League Baseball player (died 1944).
 * 1 February – Victor Herbert, composer, cellist and conductor (died 1924).
 * 11 February – Barry Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore, nobleman and officer (died 1885).
 * February – James Murray, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Elandsfontein, near Pretoria, South Africa (died 1942).
 * 13 April – Daniel Gallery, politician in Canada (died 1920).
 * 22 April – Ada Rehan, Shakespearean actress (died 1916 in the United States).
 * 4 May – William Hamilton, cricketer (died 1914).
 * 16 October – 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

 * 14 April – Lady Morgan, novelist (b. c1776).
 * 3 November – George Forrest, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 at Delhi, India (born 1800).
 * 29 April – Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer (born 1793).
 * Full date unknown
 * Peter McManus, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross.