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See also:	1858 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1858 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1858 in Ireland.

• 17 March – InDublin,James Stephens founds the revolutionary organisation which becomes known as theIrish Republican Brotherhood.^[1][2]
• Edward Harland, at this time general manager, buys the small shipyard on Queen's Island,Belfast, from his employer Robert Hickson in conjunction withGustav Wilhelm Wolff.^[3]
• Ballinacourty lighthouse atDungarvan harbour built.

• First freepublic library in Ireland opens inDundalk.

• 11 January –Mildred Anne Butler, painter (died1941).
• 13 February –James Murray Irwin, British Army doctor (died1938).
• 6 March –Coslett Herbert Waddell, priest and botanist (died1919).
• 11 March –Tom Clarke, republican (born in England; executed1916).
• 2 May –Edith Anna Somerville, novelist (died1949).
• 19 May –Mike Cleary, boxer (died1893).
• 5 October –Thomas Cusack,DemocratU.S. Representative fromIllinois (died1926).

  Full date unknown

  • Anne Marjorie Robinson, artist (died1924).

• 4 March –John Ryan, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 atLucknow,India, killed in action (born1823).
• 26 April –Francis Murphy, firstRoman Catholicbishop ofAdelaide,South Australia (born1795).
• 22 July –Mary Aikenhead, founder of theSisters of Charity (born1787).
• 28 July –Alexander Wright, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 atSebastopol, in theCrimea (born1826).
• 17 August –Robert Cane, doctor, member of theRepeal Association and theIrish Confederation, Mayor ofKilkenny (born1807).

  Full date unknown

  • John Hogan, sculptor (born1800).
  • Benjamin Lett, bomber and arsonist in America and Canada (born1813).
  • James Roche Verling,British Armysurgeon, became personal surgeon toNapoleon Bonaparte onSt Helena (born1787).

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