1849 in Ireland
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Events

• Queen's Bridge in Belfast is opened by Queen Victoria.
• Construction begins on the 18-arch Craigmore Viaduct near Newry, on the Dublin-Belfast railway line (opened in 1852).

Arts and literature

Sport

Births

• 31 January - Robert James McMordie, solicitor, politician and Lord Mayor of Belfast (d.1914).
• 12 February - John Edward Robinson, Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
• 18 May - John Clark, boxer (d.1922).
• 9 July - Robert McCall, lawyer (d.1934).
• 1 August - William Larminie, poet and folklorist (d.1900).
• 16 August - James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington, businessman and philanthropist (d.1935).
• 19 November - James Mason, chess player and writer (d.1905).

Full date unknown

• Sir Nugent Everard, 1st Baronet soldier, Seanad member (d.1929).
• Charles James O'Donnell, colonial administrator and MP (d.1934).

Deaths

• 21 January - Anthony Manahan, businessman and politician in Upper Canada (b. c1794).
• 7 March - Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry, Whig politician (b.1774).
• 27 March - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, MP, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America (b.1776).
• 22 May - Maria Edgeworth, novelist (b.1767).
• 20 June - James Clarence Mangan, poet (b.1803).
• 27 December - James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer (b.1807).

Full date unknown

• Thomas Arbuthnot, British military officer (b.1776).
• Joseph Henry Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt, socialist (b.1797).