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1840 in Ireland
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Events
Births
- 4 January - Bishop Richard Owens, Bishop of Clogher 1894-1909 (d.1909).
- 7 January - Patrick Walsh, journalist, politician and mayor of Augusta, Georgia (d.1899).
- 8 January - Henry Arthur Blake, British colonial administrator and Governor of Hong Kong (d.1918).
- 17 January - William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick, peer (d.1896).
- 27 February - Thomas Kelly-Kenny, British Army general who served in the Second Boer War (d.1914).
- 29 February - John Philip Holland, engineer, developed the first Royal Navy submarine (d.1914).
- 25 March - Myles Keogh, officer in American Civil War, later in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (d.1876).
- 23 May - George Throssell, second Premier of Western Australia (d.1910).
- 1 November - Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, businessman, politician, and philanthropist (d.1915).
- 17 November - Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse, eighteenth Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin (d.(1908).
- 28 December - Thomas Hovenden, artist and teacher (d.1895).
Full date unknown
Deaths
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