1865 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1865 in Ireland.

Events

• 23 July — The SS Great Eastern sets out from Valentia Island on the first attempt to lay the transatlantic telegraph cable.
• Work begins on the building of the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial to Queen Victoria's late Prince Consort, Prince Albert.

Arts and literature

• 23 December — Gustavus Vaughan Brooke concludes a farewell season in Belfast, playing the title role in Richard III.
• Augustus Burke paints Connemara Girl.
• Samuel Ferguson publishes his collected poems Lays of the Western Gael.

Births

• 6 February — Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer (died 1939).
• 16 March — Patsy Donovan, Major League Baseball player and manager (died 1953 in the United States).
• 17 March — Patrick Joseph Sullivan, mayor of Casper, Wyoming and Republican member of the United States Senate from Wyoming (died 1935 in the United States).
• 20 April — James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (died 1954).
• 4 May — Charles A. Callis, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1947 in the United States).
• 7 May — John MacBride, nationalist rebel and Easter Rising leader (executed 1916).
• 8 May — Charles FitzClarence, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 near Mafeking, South Africa (killed in action 1914).
• 10 June — Dermod O'Brien, painter (died 1945).
• 13 June — William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist (died 1939).
• 18 June — Henry Allan, painter (died 1912).
• 24 June — Harry Plunket Greene, baritone (died 1936).
• 15 July — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper and publishing magnate (died 1922)
• 16 July — 'George A. Birmingham' (Rev. James Owen Hannay), novelist (died 1950)
• 29 August — Thomas Kent, nationalist rebel (executed following a gunfight with the RIC 1916).
• 4 September — Alice Milligan, nationalist and poet (died 1953).
• 16 October — Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, British Army commander in World War I, later Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Field Marshal (died 1946).
• 12 November — Herbert Trench, poet (died 1923).

Full date unknown

• Grace Rhys, née Little, novelist (died 1929).
• Robert Henry Woods, Irish Unionist MP (died 1938).

Deaths

• 1 April — John Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart, Conservative politician. (born 1818).
• 23 May — Benjamin Holmes, businessman and politician in Quebec (born 1794).
• 14 July — Nathaniel Burslem, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (born 1838).
• 25 July — Dr James Barry, military surgeon, revealed on death to be a woman, probably Margaret Ann Bulkley (born 1789-1799).
• 31 August — John Farrell, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade (born 1826).
• 2 September — William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1805).

Full date unknown

• Jones Quain, anatomist (born 1796).