1860 in Ireland

Events from the year 1860 in Ireland.

Events

 * 25 February – £11,000 collected at church doors in Dublin to finance the Pope's defence against the Risorgimento in Italy; £80,000 collected nationwide (the equivalent of several millions of modern-day Euros).
 * 28 August – Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment (Ireland) Act 1860 ("Deasy's Land Act"), intended to reform tenants' rights.
 * September – Myles O'Reilly's "Battalion of St Patrick" assist in the unsuccessful defence of Spoleto against the Risorgimento.
 * 3 November – The Catholic Ballaghaderreen Cathedral is consecrated and opened.
 * 11 November – Kildare Street Club, Dublin, destroyed by fire.
 * 21–23 November – Partry evictions, County Mayo: 68 families turned out of their houses by Thomas Plunket, Church of Ireland Bishop of Tuam.
 * Construction begins on the Roman Catholic church that will become St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast.

Arts and literature

 * 27 March – the melodrama The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen, written by and starring Dion Boucicault, is first performed at Laura Keene's Theatre, New York.
 * Dr. George Sigerson's The Poets and Poetry of Munster is published.
 * Anthony Trollope's novel Castle Richmond, set during the Great Famine, is completed and published in England.

Births

 * 1 January – John Cassidy, sculptor and painter (died 1939).
 * 17 January – Douglas Hyde, member of the Seanad in 1922 and 1938; first President of Ireland and Gaelic scholar (died 1949).
 * 1 June – Hugh Thomson, illustrator (died 1920).
 * 8 June – Alicia Boole Stott, mathematician (died 1940).
 * 25 June – John Danaher, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 near Pretoria, South Africa (died 1919).
 * 23 July – Thomas Preston, scientist (died 1900).
 * 8 December – Amanda McKittrick Ros, born Anna McKittrick, novelist and poet noted for her purple prose (died 1939).
 * 25 December – Patrick S. Dinneen, lexicographer and historian (died 1934).

Deaths

 * 12 February – William Francis Patrick Napier, soldier and military historian (born 1785).
 * 17 March – Anna Brownell Jameson, writer (born 1794).
 * 23 October – Peter Boyle de Blaquière, politician in Canada and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (born 1783).
 * 24 November – George Croly, poet, novelist, historian and divine (born 1780)