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Events from the year1857 in Ireland.

• 27 March – 24 April:General election.^[1]
• 12 July – inBelfast, confrontations between crowds ofCatholics andProtestants turn into 10 days of rioting, exacerbated by the open-air preaching ofEvangelicalPresbyterian minister "Roaring"Hugh Hanna,^[2] with many of the police force joining the Protestant side. There are also riots inDerry,Portadown andLurgan.^[3]
• 4 October – the CatholicSt. Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny, is opened.
• TheNatural History Museum is opened by theRoyal Dublin Society.
• Dublin Zoo'slions breed for the first time.
• Scrabo Tower erected aboveNewtownards as a memorial toCharles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d.1854).^[4]
• Tom Gallaher sets up theGallaher tobacco business inDerry.^[5]

• 7 February –Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (died1952).
• 12 February –Margaret Pearse,Fianna Fáil politician, mother ofPatrick Pearse andWillie Pearse (died1932).
• 11 March –Tom Clarke, nationalist, rebel and organiser of theEaster Rising (executed1916).
• 17 April –Jane Barlow, poet and novelist (died1917).
• 19 April –Patrick Stone, Member of theWestern Australian Legislative Assembly (died1942 in Australia).
• 20 April –Thomas Myles, surgeon,Home Ruler, involved in importation of arms for theIrish Volunteers in 1914 (died1937).
• 22 April (probable year) –Ada Rehan, actress (died1916 in the United States).
• 1 May –T. W. Rolleston, writer, poet and translator (died1920).
• 19 May –William Jellett,Irish UnionistMP in theParliament of the United Kingdom (died1936).
• 11 July –Joseph Larmor, physicist (died1942).
• 1 August –Alan Joseph Adamson, politician in Canada (died1928).
• 22 August –William Dowler Morris, mayor ofOttawa (died1931).
• 5 October –Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish language writer (died1942).
• 29 October –John Saul, prostitute (died1904).
• 1 November
  • W. H. Grattan Flood, musicologist and historian (died1928).
  • John Joly, physicist (died1933).
• 18 November –Stanhope Forbes, painter (died1947 in the United Kingdom).
• 20 November –Sir Henry Robinson, 1st Baronet, civil servant (died1927).

• 29 January –John Connors, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 atSebastopol in theCrimea (born1830).
• 3 March –William Brown, creator and first admiral of theArgentine Navy (born1777).
• 9 April –Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (born1830).
• 11 July –John Egan, businessman and politician inOttawa (born1811).
• 27 July –Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (born1797).
• 10 August –John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (born1780).
• 19 September –John Purcell, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 atDelhi, India, later killed in action (born1814).
• 23 September –John Nicholson, military hero in India (born1822).
• 17 December –Francis Beaufort,hydrographer and officer in theBritishRoyal Navy, creator of theBeaufort scale (born1774).

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• 1857 in Wales

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