List of events
Events from the year 1795 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- 5 June – the Royal College of St Patrick established at Maynooth by Act of Grattan's Parliament to provide university-level education for Roman Catholic ecclesiastical and lay students.
- 15 September – a group of workers felling timber on the estate of Lord Carysfort in County Wicklow discover gold, leading to the Wicklow gold rush.[1][2]
- 21 September
- William Pitt, Prime Minister of Great Britain, replaces the popular and liberal Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Fitzwilliam, with Earl Camden,[5] an opponent of Catholic Emancipation whose arrival in Dublin is greeted with riots.
- Society of the United Irishmen members including Theobald Wolfe Tone and Henry Joy McCracken meet at Cavehill to the north of Belfast.
- The town of Louisburgh, County Mayo, is established by Lord Altamount of Westport to house Catholic refugees fleeing sectarian conflict in the north of Ireland.
- The first Wexford bridge across the River Slaney in the town of Wexford, built by the American Lemuel Cox in wood, is completed.[6]
- National Botanic Gardens opened by the Royal Dublin Society.
Arts and literature
Births
Deaths
References
- ^ King, Anthony (2013-03-21). "The Wicklow gold rush". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- ^ Vines, Gail (2007-01-24). "Histories: The hunt for the Wicklow gold". New Scientist. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- ^ "Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
- ^ "No. 13759". The London Gazette. 10 March 1795. p. 229.
- ^ "The Bridges of Wexford". Ask about Ireland. 2012-12-30. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
- ^ McBride, I. R. (2004). "Drennan, William (1754–1820)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8046. Retrieved 2013-08-19. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
Sources
- McArdle, Peadar (2011). Gold Frenzy: The Story of Wicklow's Gold. Swinford: Albertine Kennedy Publishing. ISBN 0-906002-08-7.