The following events occurred in Ireland in the year 1828.
Events
Births
- 1 January – Richard Phelan, fourth Roman CatholicBishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (died 1904 in the United States).
- 17 January – Eyre Massey Shaw, first Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (London) (died 1908 in England).
- 28 January – William Gorman Wills, dramatist and painter (died 1891).
- 21 March – William Davis Ardagh, lawyer, judge and politician in Canada (died 1893 in the United States).
- March – Patrick Cleburne, major general in Confederate States Army in the American Civil War (killed at the Battle of Franklin, 1864 in the United States).
- 23 April – Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian and writer (died 1892).
- 28 April – Wingfield W. Watson, leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite) (died 1922 in the United States).
- 9 May – Charles Kickham, Irish revolutionary, novelist, poet, journalist (died 1882).
- 11 May – William Walsh, U.S. Congressman in Maryland (died 1892 in the United States).
- 15 June – Thomas Newenham Deane, architect (died 1899).
- 27 June
- 26 August – William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of IrelandArchbishop of Dublin (died 1897).
- 22 September – Canon James Goodman, Irish music collector (died 1896).
- 22 November – Lydia Shackleton, botanical artist (died 1914).
- 27 November – Samuel Mullen, bookseller (died 1890).
- 31 December – Fitz James O'Brien, author (died 1862).
- Full date unknown
Deaths
See also
References
- ^Moody, TW; Martin, FX, eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork, Ireland: The Mercier Press. p. 254.
