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List of events
Events from the year 1803 in Ireland .
Events
23 July – Emmet's insurrection:
United Irishman
Robert Emmet stages a rising in
Dublin which is quelled by the military, with approximately fifty rebels and twenty soldiers dead.
[1] The
Lord Chief Justice of Ireland ,
Lord Kilwarden , is hacked to death. Neither
Michael Dwyer (from
County Wicklow ), nor
Thomas Russell (in the North), nor rebels from
Kildare , are able to offer support for the rebellion as planned.
25 August – Emmet is captured near
Harold's Cross .
19 September – Emmet, found guilty of
high treason at the Sessions House, Dublin, delivers his
Speech from the Dock , including the phrase "Let no man write my epitaph."
20 September – Emmet is
hanged in
Thomas Street, Dublin .
[2]
21 October –
Thomas Russell , co-founder of the
Society of United Irishmen , is hanged at
Downpatrick Gaol.
December – the
Wicklow rebel leader
Michael Dwyer capitulates to the government and is held in
Kilmainham Gaol .
The new
Bank of Ireland buys the former Irish
Parliament House on
College Green in Dublin from the
Government of the United Kingdom for conversion to its headquarters by
Francis Johnston .
Belvelly Bridge, linking
Great Island to the mainland of
County Cork , is built.
Arts and literature
11 August – child actor
Master Betty makes his debut in Belfast, followed on 28 November by Dublin.
[3]
Births
2 March –
Mary Frances Clarke , founder of the
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (died
1887 ).
3 April –
James Gamble , soapmaker (died
1891 in the United States ).
29 April –
Paul Cullen ,
Cardinal and Catholic
Primate of Ireland (died
1878 ).
1 May –
James Clarence Mangan , poet (died
1849 ).
May –
Francis Kelly , surveyor, business agent, farmer, and politician in Canada (died
1879 ).
17 October –
William Smith O'Brien , nationalist (died
1864 ).
12 December –
Gerald Griffin , novelist, poet and playwright (died
1840 ).
Full date unknown
Execution of
Robert Emmet
Deaths
23 January –
Arthur Guinness , brewer and founder of the
Guinness Brewery business and
family (born
1725 ).
21 February – Colonel
Edward Despard ,
British Army officer and radical (born
1751 ) (executed).
31 May –
Robert Jephson , soldier, politician and dramatist (born
1736 ).
11 July –
Thomas Hussey ,
diplomat ,
chaplain , and Bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore (born
1746 ).
23 July –
Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden ,
Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (born
1739 ) (murdered).
24 August –
James Napper Tandy , rebel leader (born
1740 ).
29 August –
Samuel Neilson , co-founder of the
Society of United Irishmen and founder of its newspaper, the
Northern Star (born
1761 ).
20 September –
Robert Emmet , leader of the Society of United Irishmen and instigator of the 1803 rebellion (born
1778 ) (executed).
21 October –
Thomas Russell , co-founder of the Society of United Irishmen and rebel leader (born
1767 ) (executed).
See also
References