1856 in Ireland

1856
in
Ireland

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
See also: 1856 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1856
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1856 in Ireland.

Events

  • 1 January – M. H. Gill, printer to Dublin University, purchases the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, renaming it McGlashan & Gill, the predecessor of Gill & Macmillan.[1]
  • 29 September – the neoclassical Roman Catholic St Mel's cathedral, Longford, opens for worship.[2]
  • 22 October

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Ó. Ciosáin, Niall; Hutton, Clare (2013). "The history of the book in Ireland". In Suarez, Michael F.; Woudhuysen, H. R. (eds.). The Book: A Global History. Oxford University Press. pp. 323–4. ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6.
  2. "St. Mel's Cathedral destroyed by fire". Longford Leader. 25 December 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2009-12-25.
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