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Events from the year1841 in Ireland

• 6 June –1841 census of Ireland: the first thoroughcensus is completed and the population of Ireland is calculated to be just under 8.2 million.^[1]
• 1 November –Daniel O'Connell is elected as the firstRoman CatholicLord Mayor of Dublin in centuries.^[2]
• 3 November – foundation stone forSaint Malachy's Church, Belfast is laid (completed in1844).
• Ennis Friary refounded byFranciscans.
• The Cork Examiner newspaper is founded by John Francis Maguire in support of theCatholic emancipation and tenant rights work of Daniel O'Connell.^[3]
• Ulster Canal completed.^[4]
• Anthony Trollope moves to Ireland as an official of theGeneral Post Office, initially settling inBanagher.^[5]

• Charles Lever's novelCharles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon is published in Dublin.

• 12 February –Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (died1926).
• 30 April –Charles Cooper Penrose-Fitzgerald, admiral in the Royal Navy (died1921).
• 31 August –Patrick Egan, treasurer of theIrish Land League, fled to theUnited States,United States Minister to Chile (died1919).
• 10 September –Max Arthur Macauliffe, British administrator, scholar and author (died1913).
• 31 October –Abraham Dowdney,United States Representative fromNew York and officer in theUnion army in theAmerican Civil War (died1886).
• 5 December –Marcus Daly, businessman in America (died1900).
• 22 December –Thomas McCarthy Fennell,Fenianpolitical prisonertransported toWestern Australia (died1914).

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  • Patrick Buckley, soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge inNew Zealand (died1896).
  • Rosa Mulholland, novelist, short-story writer and poet (died1921).
  • Charles Anderson Read, journalist, novelist and anthologist (died1878).

• 7 January –James Arthur O'Connor, painter (born1792).
• 17 March –Tyrone Power, actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager (born1797).
• 18 April –Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, politician and statesman (born1774).
• 21 July –Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye,Royal Navy captain (born1794).
• 24 August –Thomas Hopkirk, botanist (born 1785 in Scotland).
• 11 November –Catherine McAuley, nun (born1778).

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